The Lib Dem Conference Hall Is Empty And It's All Pretty Sad

    Where is everyone?

    There's just one problem facing the Lib Dems at their party conference: A lot of the seats are empty.

    Empty seats at #ldconf at start of Q&A session with @nick_clegg

    All the photos I've seen of #ldconf just look tragic - empty, downbeat, failed discos, too many beards - that sort of thing.

    It's kind of like an empty ghost town.

    Ironic that #LibDems think their conference slogan "Winning Here" is appropriate in a venue that is virtually empty.

    Even the super-meta votes, such as this one where members voted on how many votes to give each member, didn't attract a huge crowd.

    Look at the number of empty seats #ldconf @mpntod is right - we need to do more to engage & activate all members.

    And the man the Lib Dems put forward to save the union during Scotland's referendum campaign didn't get a big audience either.

    RT @AdamRamsay: 2 weeks after #indyref Secretary of State for Scotland party conference speech to almost empty room

    But perhaps this is just what we should expect from the Lib Dems conference. This is the audience in 2011, the year after they formed the coalition government.

    And hey, let's not be totally down. At least this discussion about diversity was well attended by an, er, particularly diverse crowd.

    Lib Dems discussing equalities and diversity...