Oona's typical "nice meal" costs £75 a head!
Fresh nuggets from Oona King's embarrassing attempt to pay for her flopped mayoral campaign with a £100 a head thrash at the Ministry of Sound nightclub.
In a new letter to supporters, she offers a discount for chums who book a table of ten for £750. That works out at a mere £75 a ticket which, Onna helpfully tells us, is "more or less what you pay for any nice meal in London".
Er, it must be something in the waters at the House of Lords but that is considerable more than the Evening Standard pays for lunch. And rather more than Baroness King's former constituents in Bethnall Green & Bow would spend on a typical night out.
For anyone who missed yesterday's Sunday Times, Oona owes £20,000 for her failed bid to succeed Ken Livingstone as Labour's mayoral hopeful in 2012.
A new fundraising letter discloses more details.
There will be a £150-a-head "VIP area" for guests who don't want to mux with the rifff-raff. There they will brush shoulders with "our star guest" who will be Ed Miliband.
"Ed Miliband will show us some great dance moves, or maybe he'll stick to giving a great speech," promises King - showing just the sort of policy vagueness that undermined her mayoral bid.
Joe Murphy
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You mean I get to keep my £150 and avoid Ed Miliband for free ?
Life's good.
Posted by: Man in a Shed | 07/04/2011 at 04:45 PM
You mean I get to keep my £150 and avoid Ed Miliband for free ?
Life's good.
Posted by: Man in a Shed | 07/04/2011 at 04:45 PM
I thought this was spoof news at first. I cannot see how this woman earned her place in the Lords or how she imagined she could beat even Livingstone as a Labour no-hoper mayoral candidate.
Posted by: Michael - Kensington | 07/04/2011 at 05:25 PM
Whoever is foolish enough to pay £75 for lunch in order to help pay off Oona King's debts ought to be made aware that they will more than likely be paying twice for this "bash" - once on the day - and again through their taxes, as members of the house of lords are "encouraged" to make false claims for expenses as a means of generating income (confirmed under oath by Taylor of Warwick at his recent trial). Personally I cannot think of anything worse than "rubbing shoulders" with Ed Miliband - or indeed any other labour politician.
Posted by: R.F.Yorke | 07/04/2011 at 05:59 PM
Better still get Ed to pay. After all if he'd managed to locate his spinal column when Ken was playing up, Oona would probably be the candidate.
Posted by: Jimmy | 07/04/2011 at 08:16 PM
It's Bethnal Green, actually. Spellcheck, it's a good thing, yah?
Posted by: Jo | 07/04/2011 at 10:43 PM
A penny saved is a penny earned in my book. So I think I'll stay home and jerk off all over myself and earn seventy five quid. Do I need to pay tax on that?
Posted by: Major Plonquer | 07/06/2011 at 02:53 AM