Big Tent / Manchester in September - 3 comments

It's not often that a blogger joins our ranks with a long-running spoof blog already operating against them, but Hackney Councillor Luke Akehurst is in that privileged position.

Without dwelling overly on the content of the spoof blog, not being au fait with the ins and outs of Hackney politics to name just one factor, I'm delighted to see that, entirely off their own backs, they have commissioned and erected an unofficial Bloggers4Labour 'wigwam' somewhere in the Greater Manchester area (yes, we all know it's actually a tipi).



Though accommodation arrangements have not been finalised, I do intend to arrange a get-together for Labour bloggers and sympathisers, to coincide with the Labour Party Conference - at the very least, one on similar lines to Brighton last September, and London in February, though it could turn out to be a fully-fledged 'BloggerCon'.

Either way, I intend to be in the vicinity of Manchester and hope to meet many of the Labour bloggers that geography has thus far denied me, and possibly some of the more hard-core southerners too. Let me know if you're interested. A topic will be set up on the forum accordingly.

Back in June there was also talk of an Oxford get-together. Unfortunately June and July haven't given me much time, which is why nothing's been arranged. Still, if a decent number of people are around in August, it can still go ahead. Again, let me know if you're interested.