We recently suggested that we were planning to hold a Funding the Future event.
When we posted polls both here and on YouTube asking how many people might be willing to come to East Anglia for such an event, 550 indicated that they would. I entirely accept this does not mean that all of them would actually book or arrive, but it made us think hard about our plans.
Is this the Royal We?
No, not quite…
As a consequence of some hard work by James, in the team here, we investigated larger venues than we had initially planned…
PS a strange sentence to write…the investigation was surely the “hard work”, not “a consequence” of it?
He has explained that questions would be allowed. He would have to screen them of course. So questions he knows in advance that he has chosen. Nothing like a free exchange of views.
And that’s nothing like…etc !
Spud’s view is…
550 people? The mental health crisis is worse than I thought.
Allowing them all into one place together sounds like a good idea.
Letting them out again after ….. not so. Wherever they choose does sound like the right place for a NHS Nightingale Mental Hospital to spring up around them.
Magic Grandpa (and the Fruit) got over 2,000 in Liverpool last weekend. This is what ‘care in the community’ looks like.
500+ who believe in and want to hear more of his incoherent crap? I shall be outside selling bridges
EXTERMINATE…
When I’ve tried to organise Party things, I find that 10% respond, and of those 10% actually turn up. A couple of years ago we booked a community hall and the only people there were me as treasurer, the secretary, and the secretary’s hubby who had driven her there.
You are Signor Pareto and I claim my £5.
Shirley some of the 550 might be thinking of going for the entertainment value of extracting the urine?
If we thought like the left, we would be filing many of those seats and mocking loudly.
Unfortunately, I am away on 28/02/26…and the thought of giving Spud £50 sticks in the craw!
The largest room for hire (the Newton Suite) at the city centre Cambridge Hilton takes up to 200 people and costs c.£900 + vat to hire for a day, IIRC. PA system may be extra, then insurance. Call it £1700, or £2000 with incidental expenses (admin, travel, badges, etc). As long as he gets 40 mugs at £50 each, he breaks even. If he gets 200 mugs, then it’s a nice little earner…
“If we thought like the left, we would be filing many of those seats and mocking loudly.”
” the thought of giving Spud £50 sticks in the craw!”
If we thought like the Left we’d have a G Soros type to pay it for us. Plus travel and expenses, natch.
In his post he says he can’t provide biscuits due to complications with allergies.
Right there is the problem with his entire “philosophy” – a man who seeks to plan and control every aspect of millions / billions of people’s lives cannot plan a selection of biscuits for 500 people
More likely that he’s worried they’ll scoff all his favourites.
Clarence
You nail it completely – as Hayek did in ‘The Fatal conceit’. And Quantum or not, he isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer as the spat with Grace Blakely proves
Stone the crows. How does the National Blood Service collect so many free donations of the red nectar. The last time I went was in covid when there was no tea and biscuits, it was straight out with the draught in the opposite direction of the sports hall to the entrance. But even the envy of the world has brought the biscuits back. Crawford pink wafers were my faves back in the day
Somebody once tried to convince me that Crawford pink wafers were good for warding off sea sickness. As I also like them I didn’t see the point of arguing and as many as he offered, even though I don’t get sea sick. 🙂
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If the Daily Mail’s support for fascism in the 1930s is to be held against its current owners, then can we mention to Spud’s commentators that the founders of the Hilton Hotel chain admired the brilliance of von Braun.
If this event works, we will look at other events in other parts of the country during the remainder of the year. I do not want to go overboard, but to do one of these every other month or so might be possible. Obvious venues being mentioned at present include London, somewhere in the south-west (with Bristol standing out), and maybe Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle, which will take us well into next year. Scotland and Wales might also need a look-in as we get more experienced about making arrangements from a distance.
Places to avoid.
I know the hotel this initial event is at – definitely fancy disguising myself to get in…
Is he going to get an open top car and parade around the streets?
“I gave him my baby to kiss and he bit it in the head!”
Just make sure you’ve had a nice cauliflower curry first. With a side order of cabbage.
How many responded as a joke to get him to spend money he doesn’t have?
Lemme guess that the gofundme didn’t raise the minimum, so this is a last-ditch attempt to avoid eviction.
Does he propose having a Funding the Funding the Future Event Event to pay for it?
Of course it’s not, the warnings about attempting to organise piss-ups in breweries have been taken.
What’s to stop people signing up for 10+ tickets and then cancelling for a refund 7 days before the event?
not that I would support such an approach, obviously…