[shillelagh]

Thing about the conference season is that where ever they go they bring money into the town where they have their conference. Not just from the politicans, the media bbc, itv, channel 4, sky etc all send a team, newspapers send at least one reporter and a photographer, and free lancers aiming to get the one story of the conference, the delegates from all over, then the people who have stalls there advertising their goods/services etc they all need to eat, somewhere to stop maybe a few bevvies, taxis to and from the conference centre or buses - it all adds up. It was all bringing money into blackpool. In fact do the labour party/conservatives/liberal dems not pay towards the policing of it anyway.