This must have been from around September or October in 1998 - Party conference season when the town became a focus of national media attention for a week when the Tories or Labour Party came to the Winter Gardens. In addition to hordes of TV crews and journalists the hotels were rammed with political groupies hoping to get the ear of the influential. The police were also kept busy with forces being drafted in from all over the country to support the local constabulary.
All of these people needed accommodation and Blackpool's hoteliers did rather well out of the spectacle, jacking up their prices for those who were passing the bill onto the taxpayers. However the conference centres failed to adopt the new technologies that were available for delegates at other venues, and none of the major political parties have visited Blackpool in recent years.
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