The Conference Yawn Season

Why are we subjected to all these conferences year in and year out? Apart from being incredibly boring these conferences only serve to make trades union bosses and politicians feel more important than they are or than they should ever be allowed to think they are. Of course the media love the party conferences as it allows them to preen their egos as well. The TUC conference was an emission of bile and futility and thus far the LibDem conference has been pretty much the same. One would think that being in government the LibDems would be more supportive of current policies and the general direction of travel but no you have the stupidity over issues like the 50p tax, the mansion tax and salary transparency for bosses. Talking about salary transparency what about transparency applying to those that work in the public sector with not only the publication of the name and a photograph of each person so employed but his job description, a copy of his employment contract and current salary and bonus. The taxpayer provides the wherewithal for all public sector emoluments and should be entitled to examine the terms on which all public sector employees are employed but the same logic does not apply to private sector employees so the only reason Cable wants employment details of the kind he is proposing is because of jealousy.