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Iain Dale at the TUC Conference today – strange bedfellows.  Dale wrote yesterday of adding some ‘glamour‘ to the Total Politics stall down in Brighton, I’m going to presume this was tongue in cheek.  Surely not even Dale – not known to shrink away from a little self-promotion – can think that the trade unionists will be impressed by his presence.

Regardless, his attempts to woo trade union subscribers to Total Politics (he reports with glee that ‘there’s even an interview with Brendan Barber in it’ as if this is somehow groundbreaking), won’t be helped by the particularly condescending headline to his latest missive: ‘A Morning Wiv Da Bruvvers’.  Oh dear.