'No' campaign raises its profile, and £½m.

Anthony Butcher · 25-11-2004, 02:28 AM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...373593,00.html

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THE Vote No campaign against a European constitution raised about £500,000 from dinner at The Savoy for London’s business and media glitterati.

The organisers said that the success of this £300-a-plate event last Tuesday has again demonstrated the pulling power of their case before the European referendum, likely to be held in 2006.

Most of the money came from an auction of gifts, such as a dinner party supervised by the celebrity chef Marco Pierre White, as well as a picture of Baroness Thatcher and an invitation to tea with the former Prime Minister. Offers also included a day amid the corridors of power, featuring coffee with William Hague, the former Tory leader; a tour of Parliament from Lord Weatherill, the former Commons Speaker; tea with the Eurosceptic Labour MPs Frank Field and Kate Hoey; and drinks with Trevor Kavanagh, the political editor of The Sun. Kavanagh was one of the guest speakers along with Michael Spencer, the head of ICAP, the world’s largest money brokers. Mr Spencer’s gift of a “ritzy long weekend on the Rivera” on his 80ft Mangusta yacht raised more than £30,000 in the auction.

mkpdavies · 25-11-2004, 02:45 AM

Why don't UKIP run some sort of gala event like this. 500k would go down a treat!

We need to start raising our game, if we want to put up a fight against the big boys. This is proof that there is a lot of good will for our cause out there!

cynic · 13-12-2004, 07:27 PM

I'll organise a Tea party in Lincolnshire - A Boston Tea Party? There'd be no more sitting on the 'Fens' Just think what we could do with all those donated Mangel wurzels - we would 'beet' the competition hands down. And if we served Melons, it really would be a 'gala' event!
:roll:

jp · 13-12-2004, 08:02 PM

These guys are professionals, take a look at their website:

http://www.vote-no.com/home/home.aspx

doc_cruel · 13-12-2004, 11:45 PM

Umm.... all seems like a tory bandwagon to me!
Photo and dinner with Thatcher; tea with Hauge. We should be taking the reins not the tories!

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mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 30,832 Party: Libertarian Party	Why don't UKIP run some sort of gala event like this. 500k would go down a treat! We need to start raising our game, if we want to put up a fight against the big boys. This is proof that there is a lot of good will for our cause out there! __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Blue Labour, Lib Dems

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cynic Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 127	Jam and scones I'll organise a Tea party in Lincolnshire - A Boston Tea Party? There'd be no more sitting on the 'Fens' Just think what we could do with all those donated Mangel wurzels - we would 'beet' the competition hands down. And if we served Melons, it really would be a 'gala' event! :roll:

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13-12-2004, 08:02 PM	#4 (permalink)
jp Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,000	These guys are professionals, take a look at their website: http://www.vote-no.com/home/home.aspx

13-12-2004, 11:45 PM	#5 (permalink)
doc_cruel Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 213	Umm.... all seems like a tory bandwagon to me! Photo and dinner with Thatcher; tea with Hauge. We should be taking the reins not the tories!