For auld lang syne…
Well, that’s another Congress over. I watched a pretty empty looking hall on telly for the last words, which this year went to David Hencke of the Guardian, with the traditional less-than-serious “Reply from the Media”.
He proposed a new round of Union Modernisation money to be spent entirely on high-tech innovations. The upcoming “Winter of Discontent” would be replaced by a “Summer of Fun” Wi-Fi beach festival instead of next year’s Congress, with motions downloadable as podcasts for a individually customisable event, and unions would go entirely online to conduct their disputes through hacking and phreaking.
Might work. In fact online might already be how they’re organising the GC elections, given the results 
Tags: Congress, David Hencke, Insert-season-here of Discontent, TUC
September 18th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
“through hacking and phreaking.”
heh heh “Game over man Game over”
September 18th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Well - I’m being a little unfair to him there, and that’s my own cliché faux pas
His actual joke was quite a long one (possibly slightly too long for the audience of a last speech after 4 solid days of conference and an over-run), and involved PCS sneaking in “virtual picket” malware to government systems to take their their pay increases directly from DWP computers if the government held out any longer on public sector pay.