Manchester is preparing for Conservative Party Conference

I was amused to see in this morning's papers that Manchester City Council has apparently spent £8,000 producing a book of sex tips for the over-50s.

Looking at the timing, is there a possibility that the Council has embarked on this project on the basis of twin stereotypes:

1) the assumed average age of delegates to the Conservative Party Conference next week, and

2) the running joke about what delegates get up to after a few too many free fringe meeting glasses of wine?

Of course, whatever the Council's motives this is an absurd use of taxpayers' money. For that matter, it will undoubtedly go to waste. As Anne Widdecombe says in The Sun today,

"If someone hasn't learnt how to have sex by the time they have reached 50 then a booklet is certainly not going to help."

Quite.