In between Star Trek and episodes of True Blood I have been entertaining myself today with coverage of the Conservative Party Conference (or #cpc11 for the Twitterati). I have decided that this can only be survived with the aid of a drinking game, so I’m proposing a first draft below.

• The mess that Labour left us/Labour’s legacy – take a drink.
• The nation’s credit card/Living beyond our means – take a drink.
• Deficit – take a drink.
• We’re all in this together – take a drink.
• Quoting Ed Miliband or other senior Labour figures – take a drink.
• Hard-working families – take a drink.
• Referring to one’s own or another speaker’s weight – take a drink.
• Government minister mistakes conference speech for stand-up act – take a drink.
• First Past the Post is the best thing since sliced bread – take a drink.
• Putting price tags on intangible benefits of things like the environment because audience wouldn’t get it otherwise – take a drink.
• Let’s have the Scottish independence referendum right now – take a drink.
• Values or Conservative Values – take a drink.
• Tax cuts (except corporation tax) – take a drink.
• We’re not imploding in Scotland! – take a drink.
• Government minister sounding like 12-year-old behind the bike sheds (except Michael “I am a banana” Gove) – take a drink.
• Speaker congratulates government on success in Libya… and conveniently does not mention Syria, Bahrain, or Yemen – take a drink.
• Let’s have a positive campaign – take a drink.
• Scottish independence eats babies – take two drinks.
• Enterprise/Business/Entrepreneurship – take two drinks.
• Choice (except on abortion) – take two drinks.
• Corporation tax cuts – take two drinks.
• Cap on immigration – take two drinks.
• Michael Gove sounding like a 12-year-old behind the bike sheds – take two drinks.
• Big Society – take two drinks.
• I am a volunteer who doesn’t have a minimum wage – take three drinks.
• Modern Conservatism – take three drinks.
• We told you so about the Euro – take three drinks.
• Greece – down the bottle.

Anyone else want to add to it?