And here's Bill's:
The discipline of the word game is always very revealing. Every member of conference, of whatever party, will now be obliged, whether speaking in full conference or in smaller meetings, to play word association, or to start every sentence with the letter with which the previous speaker ended a sentence. Or they could compose platitudes in the manner of a well-known celebrity or novelist or poet or fictional character (maximum 150 words or 16 lines of poetry) and read out the results. This kind of pressurised task is likely to yield colossal wisdom about health, defence, education, the economy and other stuff, as well as giving onlookers a genuine insight into the kind of people they might or might not vote for. Cash prizes could be given to the most interesting, or, if need be, vouchers of some kind, perhaps to be spent in a local supermarket.
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