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Plenty of solid stuff.

Including a Land Value Tax, because "use the land or lose the land" will never work any other way.

And including the renationalisation of the energy companies. That will dressed up as an expression of exasperation at the "failure" of any other way of making the freeze work. But it is the only way that the freeze could ever be made to work, so it is the obvious intention from the outset.

Making it all the odder that the privatisation-stopping promise to renationalise the Royal Mail was not there, and that nor was the promise to take back each rail franchise in turn over the course of a Parliament, thereby renationalising the railways for free. The taboo has been broken, though. Give it time.

Do not worry about lowering the voting age, even if the Leader did surround himself with those truants who were presumably attending with their parents, including some boys who had not even been made to drag ties around their necks. It may be Brighton, lads, but this is still the Labour Party.

Lowering the voting age is one of those things like changing how House of Commons boundaries are drawn, or changing how MPs are elected, or replacing the House of Lords. Waiting for Godot, and all that. Notice that while the people strategically positioned near the television cameras rose to their feet for this, much of the rest of the hall did not even applaud. It is never even going to be attempted.

No one proposes a country which is cut off from the wider world, so that bit did not really mean anything. Much more to the point was the basking in having successfully prevented an intervention in Syria, the failure to mention the EU at any point, and the insistence that "It may work elsewhere, but it won't work here" directed at Lynton Crosby.

Any Lib Dem hopes of a Coalition with Miliband were well and truly stamped down by a single, derisive reference in which he pointedly got their name wrong.

And who would be Angela Knight? Briefly an MP and very briefly a Minister under John Major, she was the voice of the bankers when that all kicked off, and today she is the voice of the energy companies.