You are missing the point gentlemen. Stuart Wheeler asked for 150 individuals or organisations to give him £1000 each, to demonstate how concerned many people and organisations are about this issue. A millionaire, going to court on his own, was precisely the image that he did not want to project.
Let us make a comparison, with a previous court (Brighton) concerning this matter. With the best will in the world, one of our members, sought an application to establish that a manifesto pledge constituted a legal contract with the electorate. Not only was that a patent nonsense, it unnecessarily complicated the issue. Wheeler is assuming that the government would honour their pledge, concerning the Lisbon Treaty, but the original Treaty was wholly different from the one finally agreed; therefore the promise did not apply. Wheeler is concerning himself with that asssertion alone. Not even the authors of the second Treaty do agree with the British government that the second Treaty is substantially different; they say that it is essentially the same. That is strong support for Wheeler's case: he could win. This is a far better line of attack, than that argued in the Brighton court.
UKIP must really become more serious if we are to make an impact. Obstruction and histrionics must be replaced with more substantial things. What we have to endure is most frustrating!
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