[milton-chat] MCP fundraising event

[jen]

On 21 Jan 2007, at 5:26 pm, Paul Oldham wrote:

> On 21/01/07 17:07 Martin Thorne wrote:
>
>> Just had the Milton Conservatives newsletter drop through my  
>> letterbox, and
>> it mentions a Dance and Disco in aid of the Save Milton Country Park
>> campaign [...]
>
> No it's not. It says it's in aid of "SAVE MILTON COUNTRY PARK". It is
> not in aid of the campaign. We asked them to work with us but they
> didn't want to, instead they went ahead and did this.

That's a shame. Party politics should have no part of this - we  
should work together to try and keep it open, not have lots of little  
campaigns and fighting about what party did what.
>
>> NB. There is a disclaimer which states that although it is being  
>> organised
>> by the Milton Conservatives, this is a totally non-political event.
>
> ... which doesn't sit too well on a Tory party campaign leaflet  
> does it.
> Of course it's political. Even if it wasn't on the leaflet the fact  
> that
> Gerda's organising it makes it political. Sorry, that's politics.
>

Wonder where the money they're making is actually going to go. Are  
they going to just stick it in the car-parking machine or something?  
As far as I was aware there is no way to actually give money apart  
from this..

Jen

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