One final thought on the Labour party conference; when they meet again this time next year, they will be a party in opposition and will almost certainly have a new leader. This was the last hurrah for Brown, and may yet prove to be the last stand of the Nu Labour movement. And how did they spend this time? Not so much predicting victory in the next election as reminding people at all levels within the party that there is still an election battle that needs fighting.

The Labour party conference has achieved little other than highlighting the depths of despair within that organisation. The Tories should rejoice; the Labour party seems to have given up.