Val, I'm afraid your contribution to this debate is woeful and typically Fib Dem.
How exactly did our Labour Council welcome the microwave conference? Was there a delegation of Labour councillors outside GMEX doing a meet and greet? No, so they were hardly welcoming them.
Should Labour have banned the conference on moral grounds? Sure.
But GMEX`is a business that takes bookings from wide range of companies - some good, some bad.
The fac eis the microwave peopel aren't doing anythin gillegal (immoral yes) so cancellign their booking could have resulted in legal action.
As Chris points out no-one twigged they are were arms people but it's hardly Labour laying out the red carpet as your Fib dem take on it implies.
Peter, sometines you fail to address the issue when it doesn't suit you. Chris rightly points out that virtually everyone in Manc Labour opposes the war. We`are a democratic party and we allow dissent and we choose to express it and you can by voting for MPs like messers lloyd or Keith Bradley - before he went - who opposed the war.
Plus what is your asnwer to the Fib Dems opposing the war on one hand and then voting to send more of our boys when they realised it could them cost votes by being seen as not supprting our armed forces. Typically Fibs facing both ways at the same time.
