Party time
Peter Hoskin 4:01pm
Utterly incredible. Over at ConHome, Alex Deane has highlighted something that is just utterly incredible – Team David
Miliband's guide to hosting a "house meeting" in his honour. You really have to read the 6-page pdf to take in the full, fastidious horror of it all. But this tip for, erm, "building
accountability" into the guest-list deserves pulling out:
What fun."Remind your guests the day before – try and build accountability into the relationship. If someone confirms then they should be there and you need to let people know you are disappointed if they don’t turn up… even if it’s just your mates!"
UPDATE: By way of a hat-tip, this was first spotted by Jess Freeman over at the Total Politics blog.
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Tom
August 19th, 2010 4:19pm Report this commentI am mystified. No where did it say guests should bring a banana.
Jannie Geldenhuys
August 19th, 2010 4:22pm Report this commentI just read it
OH
MY
GOD
Are you sure this isn't from a yet-to-be-broadcast episode of The Tick of It?
David Morris
August 19th, 2010 4:33pm Report this commentWell, this is worrying. Following the contents of this document would take all the fun out of something held in his honour. Why can't people hold meetings or parties in the way that they want?
davidk
August 19th, 2010 4:41pm Report this comment"Utterly incredible"?
A bit OTT. Try "utterly predictable".
Moraymint
August 19th, 2010 4:47pm Report this commentPolitics at its toe-curling worst, eh?
Maggie
August 19th, 2010 4:53pm Report this commentMiliband's up in Glasgow with his chum Gordon gatecrashing Jimmy Reid's funeral. He looks like a teetotaller so I don't think he'll be experiencing the occasion to its full extent.
Sam ARMSTRONG
August 19th, 2010 4:59pm Report this commentSo the 'Spirit of 68' with all its shrugging off of conformity and its brave new world basically boils down to a PDF document telling you to scold your house guests if they decide not to show up. He would have made a very good concentration camp guard.
Billy Blofeld
August 19th, 2010 5:10pm Report this commentI hope I can attract a few Labour Party revellers to my weekend retreat in downtown Baghdad....
P.S. Love the instructions - Labour really do not think people can think for themselves with out support and guidance every step of the way.......
dearieme
August 19th, 2010 5:23pm Report this comment1) Decide on a venue (preferably your own home if it can fit the people you want to invite).
2) Think of the people you want to invite.
Call me a counter-revolutionary, but don't you need to do (2) before you can do (1)?
Mal
August 19th, 2010 5:57pm Report this commentdearieme @ 5:23. Nowhere in the instructions does it give you license to think for yourself. You will receive a re-education call at 23:05 pm.
Jonathan_T
August 19th, 2010 5:58pm Report this commentI particularly like this bit:
5.30pm Get in from work
So, not expecting anyone with a proper job then.
Chris lancashire
August 19th, 2010 5:59pm Report this comment"Consider the reasons why you think DM is the best person to lead the Labour Party" Erm, ah, er, uh, No, you've got me there.
Jonathan Woolf
August 19th, 2010 6:03pm Report this commentClassic modern Labour. No doubt the public school boy berks who wrote this assume the great unwashed (i.e. us) couldn't possibly have a clue how to interact socially outside a pub. "Best tell the plebs that if you buy your own drinks, you need to put them in the fridge - salt of the earth but thank god we'll never have them in our house in Hampstead".
JDR
August 19th, 2010 6:13pm Report this comment"Fastidious" ? Don't you mean "fatuous" ?
Rememberer
August 19th, 2010 7:28pm Report this commentSeems rather close to Microsoft's celebrated invitation to hold a Windows 7 launch party - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ
Hysteria
August 20th, 2010 1:23am Report this commentHa....Ha ha ha ......too funny....a brilliant satirical take-down of the socialist mind-set...brilliant!
oh - wait....
David Booth
August 21st, 2010 11:34am Report this commentAnd of course the Miliband "Throwing a Party Guide" should give instructions to your guest's on how to wash their hands after they have been to the ablutions.
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