Saturday
No Good Liberal will have cared for all those ‘security precautions’ at our Birmingham Conference – passport numbers, police with automatic weapons and all that rot.
"There are people out there who want to do us serious harm, there are people out there who want to kill us,” said one fellow in defence of them.
That, however, was also true of the SDP in the Alliance years, and we never went to these extremes then. I fear we have lost our sense of proportion in recent years.
Previously on Lord Bonkers' Diary
- The tramps of St James's Park
- A regiment of teachers
- The Gareth Chilcott Inquiry
- Lembit Opik on Arjen Robben Island
- Larry at 10 Downing Street
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