The Conservative party conference kicks off today in Manchester and there already signs that delegates may not be receiving the warmest of welcomes from the more sinister factions of the city’s left.
This morning commuters from Salford were greeted with the sight of a banner reading ‘Remember we only have to be lucky once’ hanging over the Irwell river, near Peel park.
The slogan is a nod to a statement made by the IRA after the Brighton hotel bombing in 1984, which aimed to kill Margaret Thatcher and members of her Cabinet when they were at their party conference. Five people connected with the Conservative party were killed in the blast and 31 injured. Following the attack, the IRA released a statement which read:
‘Mrs. Thatcher will now realise that Britain cannot occupy our country and torture our prisoners and shoot our people in their own streets and get away with it.
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