Editorial: How to heckle Tony and the gang of four

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Hecklers got it all wrong at yesterday's conference speech by Tony Blair.

Instead of cries about hunting and Iraq as the core themes - spurted out by well-dressed young men who could easily be man-handled out of the venue - a trick was surely missed by the blue rinse set who would have made it much more difficult for Tony to issue comments about “democracy”. Imagine the headlines if a few elderly pensioners with canes had been pounced on by eager card-carrying members of the Labour Party merely for raising their voices over meagre state pension payouts. However, the trick should not be reserved for Blair and Labour alone, for surely there is a gang of four at ...

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