Did You Go Along Mikey?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Labour politicians gathering for a £15,000-a-table fund-raising gala at the Roundhouse in North London. ///

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/11/1405035166662_wps_5_image001_jpg.jpg

[Sqad]

LOL.

[wolf63]

Is Captain Jean-Luc Picard a labour man? I thought that he was French.


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[ichkeria]

This might a fitting moment to reflect on the recent Tory Hurlingham bash, with its eye-catching auction:
First prize a game of mixed doubles (presumably "mixed" across the net only) with Dave and Boris. Won by, oh look, the wife of one of Vladimir Putin's cronies for a cool £160,000. I guess no one in Britain could live with the bidding, or the shame lol

[anotheoldgit]

I suspect that the ceramic pig will lose them the Muslim vote.

[AB Editor]

They have to keep the political machine oiled somehow, champagne and caviare only goes so far :)

I'm glad the old trots pictured had a chance to roll up their sleeves and really muck in with the common man.

I wonder if it wouldn't be better to have a single pooled fund for political campaigning which is split in some "fair" way between all parties. The fund raising should all go into the same pot and be conducted in the same way that children in need, or a school fete is used to accrue cash. £50 to throw a tomato at Boris? £100 for a really rotten one. I'd give it a whack. Arm-wrestling with Prescott? Why not?

[anotheoldgit]

AB Editor

Champagne and caviare?

Now come on be fair Ed, it was actually a gourmet dinner of wine, asparagus with monkfish, pudding was rhubarb and custard, presumably an ironic nod to the kind of food the metro-elite think is eaten by ‘ordinary’ people.

[Peter Pedant]

asparagus is still in season

asparagus and monkfish - a very noble fish - the favourite of King Hassan of Morocco

might nip out and get some.....

[anotheoldgit]

Where is Mikey, is he still sleeping off his hangover?

[AB Editor]

Maybe he's got a bit of gout from the bath of fois gras he won?

I think you've probably called the pud correctly there AOG - that, or it's someone's favourite.