[milton-chat] MCP fundraising event

[jen]

On 21 Jan 2007, at 6:00 pm, Clarke Brunt wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 05:35:44PM +0000, jen wrote:
>> That's a shame. Party politics should have no part of this...
>
> Indeed. But to me, most of the messages so far in this thread seemed
> unecessarily negative towards the event in the community centre and  
> its
> motives.

I dunno - I just think people genuinely want to know what their plans  
are and where their money will go. I don't think it's meant in any  
negative way.
>
> I would hope that anyone who likes can do whatever they like in aid  
> of the
> Park without necessarily having to be part of one particular Campaign.

I like the idea of one campaign that everyone signs up to. Otherwise  
it gets too confusing. Have you seen the film "A life of Brian"? Too  
many campaigns remind me of the bit where the Peoples Front of Judea  
are slagging off the Peoples Judeas Liberation Front and the Popular  
Front of Judea and the Judeas People Front etc... You know what I  
mean. We start arguing with each other and forget what the aim is,  
which is to keep the park open.
>
> But I agree that it isn't particularly obvious what they'll do with  
> any
> proceeds of the event. I imagine that the organisers of the Campaign
> (web-site etc.) aren't at this stage in the business of collecting  
> money, so
> maybe wouldn't have wanted it anyway, and I'm not sure if one can  
> just hand
> money over to SCDC saying it's to help the park. If it stayed open,  
> then I
> suppose any such money could be said to have helped, but if it _still_
> closed, then the money would I guess just go on something else.