Bag-Carrier Invasion of the News International Party

This section from TB's favourite Labour lady-blogger

Sadie Smith's

conference round up made him chuckle:

The news of the the Sun's "Labour's Lost It" editorial started doing the rounds about 9pm the previous evening, at precisely the same time that the News International chaps - and this was a courageous decision in retrospect - hosted their champagne reception for the most important and influential people at Conference.

In the next room was the Co-op party, a good do by all accounts. Both events were proceeding pretty much as planned until some enterprising comrade in the News International do realised there was a fire door that linked both parties. Outraged, as we all were, at the Sun's attempted hatchet job, this individual opened the joining door and, with the rallying cry, "free champagne this way!" caused a minor riot as a stampede of the hoi polloi took the News International reception by storm.

I was at a dinner outside the Conference centre but heard an account from a friend who was a witness of the insurrection. It was reported to me that a comrade was caught wandering off with a glass of champagne, only to be accosted by a News International woman who demanded to know whether Moet was being stolen.

"Er, yes," replied the criminal, without blinking.

"Well," huffed the woman, "I think that is very immature."

This coming from from a corporation that the next day would publish a teenager in blue panties declaring her love for David Cameron struck us all, after the event, as hilariously rich."

Anyone thinking what TB is thinking?

Well, will see if he can blag an invite first...