Fundraising Auction at the Battersea Evolution venue in London - Feb 2012
If anyone still thinks that David Cameron has the interest of the common people then they need to think again. So much for Cameron’s pre-election promise of ‘Openness and transparency’ as the Tories went to great lengths to keep the black-and-white-tie fund raising party a secret to avoid letting the big fat cat lie out of the bag!
The list of people able and willing to denote thousands to the party’s funds in order to win an outright election and be free of any calming effects that the Liberal Democrats may think they exert. It was almost a Bankers and Hedge Fund Managers Ball.
The secret event was sponsored by the investment group Shore Capital with party supporters dining on spectacular banquet feast with of course the very best French wines to wash it all down.
Wealthy donors paid up to £10,000 for tables with the top prices being paid for those close to Cameron and his Minsters. The former party treasurer Michael Spencer the Chief Executive of ICAP the worlds largest inter-dealer broker and the owner of ‘Spread Betting’ firm City Index was present along with the current treasurer Baron Fink the Godfather of the UK hedge fund industry and a frequent guest at the Prime Minster official country home of Chequers. Others in attendance was another hedge fund boss Michael Hintze and the Swiss banker Henry Angest.
The auction was conducted by Tory supporter Sotheby’s chairman Henry Wyndham and for a taste of some items sold during the night see the list below:-
- A bronze status of Baroness Thatcher was sold for £120,000
- Shooting for a party of eight on the Tusmore Park estate in Oxfordshire, with pheasants, partridges and ducks as the targets’.
- Dinner for eight with Boris Johnson at a top London restaurant went for £55,000.
- An Everest trek with adventurer David Hempleman-Adams sold for £20,000.
- An offer of a self portrait painted by artist Darren Baker sold for £40,000.
- A day's shooting for eight guns in Oxfordshire with Lunch thrown in sold for £55,000
They were many other bloodspots events on offer with some selling for £55,000 and stalking at Buckhurst Park was sold but the winning bid was not released.
However unlike last year’s event they were no internships with top City firms available for auction. These usually sell for thousands of pounds for the benefit of the children of party donors. That is now seen as sheer favouritism and perhaps buying success for ones offspring, so reluctantly removed from the auction this year.
Conservative Party treasurer Baron Fink addressed the party supporters and told them that we need to raise enough money to govern this country without the Liberal Democrates. This time we ‘the Conservatives’ must blow all opposition to us out of the water.
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