Last night, the TPA held a Euro Quiz night in Westminster both as a celebration of the success of our recent book (which is still available here) and as an opportunity to get together with some of our fellow campaigners for a bit of fun, as opposed to the policy and politics chat that is the normal staple of Westminster social events.
Fine performances were put in by a range of teams, including runners-up The Freedom Association (whose team included John Whittingdale MP)
and Conservative Future, whose Chairman Michael Rock can be seen here collecting the prize of Brussels Sprouts and red tape awarded for coming a triumphant last:
Other competitors included the Adam Smith Institute who secured second place, Open Europe, who put in a valiant effort particularly on the Eurovision round; Progressive Vision, which managed the impressive feat of fielding a team entirely from Mark Littlewood's family; and a team composed of a range of journalists.
The quiz was eventually won by (ahem) a TaxPayers' Alliance team but I'm pleased to say we stuck with that original decision, and resisted requests from the CF team to take the EU's approach by repeating the process again and again until they got the result they wanted.
It was a bit of fun, primarily, but there's also a serious purpose to this kind of thing. As Tim has pointed out many a time on ConservativeHome, it is still relatively rare that we all get together socially as a movement. Hopefully by getting together as groups who are united by what we agree on rather than divided by the areas where we differ, it can only strengthen the centre right coalition (and improve our general knowledge).
