On it was written the 10 points which the party used, in a rather unwieldy fashion, to set out their case.
If digitisation holds out the promise of every word ever written being cleanly stored on servers, unwieldy bricks made of paper and cardboard can easily fall into the dreaded modern category of "clutter".
They can get in the way of a decent political dogfight, which provides far more reliable fun than cluttering up a news report with unwieldy statistics.
Ever greater fragmentation and atomisation, more schools with unqualified teachers and no local oversight, the centralisation of power in an unwieldy Department for Education can only exacerbate the risk of further problems.
His trip to Arnhem Land this year bore more hallmarks of an election-style PR exercise, but in fairness that may be because of the unwieldy prime ministerial apparatus, including the media, that now shadows his every move.
Big problems seem like they're too big to solve, and big organisations seem too slow and unwieldy to offer much hope.
Murray also put in train a thorough examination of the TUC's unwieldy structure, made more pressing by a declining membership during the Thatcher years.
That can make for an unwieldy and less persuasive book.
California's state finances are still unwieldy, thanks largely to Proposition 13, which famously caps property-tax rates and mandates a two-thirds legislative supermajority to raise any taxes.
It would be more unwieldy than a tax but would probably include a mechanism for trading carbon permits among companies (a "cap and trade" scheme) that would greatly reduce the cost of reducing emissions.The Economic Report of the President is full of praise for market-based policies and various proposals for some sort of trading are already floating around Congress.
With Mr Prodi out of the picture (and out of the country), his Olive Tree alliance, which had turned into an increasingly unwieldy jumble of 12 parties, including post-Communists, still-Communists, Greens, leftish Catholics, Socialists and Mr Prodi's own demoralised rump of centrists, has been trying, without success, to come up with a new name.
