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do they need the free travel passes ?
Champagne quaffing Tory members heading to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester this week will receive free `System One' travel passes for bus, trains and trams, worth around £130,000, courtesy of local council tax payers of Salford and Greater Manchester.
The estimated 4,000 Tory Party members attending the five day event (out of 12,000 delegates) will receive a free System One travel pass, for which the nearest equivalent – a County Card – would normally cost £33.30.
Give or take a few blue rinses and pinstriped prats from the City, the full cost works out around £130,000. The Conservative Party Conference website states…
"System One are pleased to offer complimentary travel cards for all Party Member representatives attending the event. These will be valid on bus, tram and train travel in Greater Manchester and will be presented in a travel pack with map and further information on getting around Greater Manchester. This will be issued with your Conference security photographic pass and handbook…"
http://www.conservativepartyconference.org.uk/
Champagne quaffing Tory members heading to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester this week will receive free `System One' travel passes for bus, trains and trams, worth around £130,000, courtesy of local council tax payers of Salford and Greater Manchester.
The estimated 4,000 Tory Party members attending the five day event (out of 12,000 delegates) will receive a free System One travel pass, for which the nearest equivalent – a County Card – would normally cost £33.30.
Give or take a few blue rinses and pinstriped prats from the City, the full cost works out around £130,000. The Conservative Party Conference website states…
"System One are pleased to offer complimentary travel cards for all Party Member representatives attending the event. These will be valid on bus, tram and train travel in Greater Manchester and will be presented in a travel pack with map and further information on getting around Greater Manchester. This will be issued with your Conference security photographic pass and handbook…"
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Em, it might not be allowed to drink on buses (though the coffee culture has kind of overtaken the general no drinks) though it's rare I've seen someone tackled about it or refused to be let on with alcohol - many people have passes and just file on (charge may be more appropriate at rush hour!) so would often go unnoticed and when people are tackled it tends to result in some kind of standoff with much vile language and criminal damage taken out on the bus, usually kicking and hitting it on the way off after the police have been called etc...
I doubt I'd spot many of them, on a bus or not (I can't see it somehow haha!) save the more well known ones who will probably be safely holed up in their little cocoon patrolled by armed police or ferried to wherever they need to go. Can't see Cameron et al using their System One somehow!
I would love to see Boris riding around on his bike though if he will be there.
Ahh Gauchos - room for one more? ;)
I doubt I'd spot many of them, on a bus or not (I can't see it somehow haha!) save the more well known ones who will probably be safely holed up in their little cocoon patrolled by armed police or ferried to wherever they need to go. Can't see Cameron et al using their System One somehow!
I would love to see Boris riding around on his bike though if he will be there.
Ahh Gauchos - room for one more? ;)
SALFORD MARCH TO CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE
TORIES NOT WELCOME HERE
Salford March and Rally
Sunday 29th September
Meet Bexley Square 10am
The Salford march, as part of the huge TUC demo telling the Tories they are not welcome here, goes from Bexley Square on Chapel Street this Sunday. Before it sets off to join the main TUC march there'll be a short rally with the theme of the day… `Save Our NHS'…`Defend Jobs and Services'…`No To Austerity'.
http://www.tuc.org.uk/industrial/tuc-22405-f0.cfm
Yep, it's the TUC NHS ones.
Some of the flyers I've spotted about were far more offensive!
Yep, it's the TUC NHS ones.
Some of the flyers I've spotted about were far more offensive!
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