[milton-chat] MCP fundraising event

[hmc at mole.bio.cam.ac.uk]

Can I just say that whatever we think of the "fundraising event", having
the Tories pay for a leaflet headlined "Save Milton Country Park" that
presumably got delivered by Tory volunteers to every house in the village,
so that even those who weren't aware of the threat to the Park might have
a clue that We Have A Problem now, is probably a good thing.

Since a lot of the campaign so far has been by basically viral marketing,
and I was a bit shocked when I cycled along Coles Road on Friday night at
how few houses who back onto the Park had posters in their windows, this
might just raise more awareness and get more petition
signatures/letters/general outrage, as I'm sure that there probably were
people out there who had no idea - it's amazing how unobservant people can
be, if they're busy going about their daily business and have been busy.
Heather


On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, 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 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.
>
> 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.