He said he had “no sympathy” for those berating Conservatives – and journalists – entering the “ring of steel” – and dubbed them the “enemy of ordinary working people” in the city.
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The protest was largely peaceful and ended with a rally with speakers including Charlotte Church, Owen Jones and junior doctors.
The Tory conference this year is so stage-managed that not only did the party manage the no mean feat of sending out a check-against-delivery text of Boris Johnson’s speech before he stood up, but the Mayor then stuck to that text almost entirely.
Elsewhere, there was a bee handing out leaflets, a massive white No To 3rd Runway aeroplane weaving about and a giant Trojan Horse erected outside Manchester Town Hall to draw attention to the horror of TTIP.
There’s no position akin to Jeremy Corbyn’s as leader of the Labour Party.
Former farming minister Edwina Curry, who was also waiting in line, proudly told said that she refused to jump the queue.
For the next three days, moreover, an ugly show of that pointlessness was laid on by those who signalled their sense of defeat by getting as close as possible to any passing Conservatives and issuing the week’s ubiquitous insult: “Tory scum!” The evening also saw a lively Refugees Welcome Here rally, following Theresa May’s outburst.
The demonstrators are angry about cuts to benefits and what they see as an assault on the NHS and the welfare state.
He said it was as much an anti-NDP move, as it was an anti-Harper message.
The Tories want to ram the bill through before Christmas, but protesters were optimistic about beating back the attack. Many families with young children joined the march.
“Conference, I knew when it was going to be alright on that extraordinary night of the election in May”.
People had travelled from all over the country to protest.
He told The Daily Telegraph: “Me and my friends were just there watching the protest”. “They are the people who idolise Hugo Chavez and toast the revolution in taxpayer funded vintage burgundy”. I have no more idea about this than I did about the British campaign, which I got as wrong as everyone else.
“I’ve always had huge admiration for the Labour Party over many years as, although I disagreed with them, they were Her Majesty’s loyal opposition”.
Americans tend to assume that Corbyn was picked through a national primary of all Labour Party voters, instead of Labour Party members.
Same chant, same streets – and, as the Conservatives gathered for their conference, the thousands of people who came to protest suggested the exact same bundle of emotions: anger, defiance, and by the day’s end, a creeping sense of the futility of it all. The transport secretary, in an interview with the Observer, talks about connecting up the great cities of a new “northern powerhouse” with fast trains crossing the Pennines in a few years’ time, on routes that for too long have been tortuous endurance tests for passengers and symbols of northern neglect. Oink Oink! Get out of town!’…
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Chief Supt John O’Hare said: “Around 60,000 people took part in a demonstration and I would like to thank them for their co-operation”. Manchester was, indeed, taken back from the Tories…
