Labour is not fit for purpose. It is anti-democratic & obsessed only with remaining the first Opposition party.
Why? Well in part because of ££££
FPTP helps Labour to get rich.
Every seat lost costs Labour £18,407
Every 200 votes lost cost £36.76
PR would be disastrous.
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Why? Well in part because of ££££
FPTP helps Labour to get rich.
Every seat lost costs Labour £18,407
Every 200 votes lost cost £36.76
PR would be disastrous.
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Labour, like other opposition parties receive what is called the Short money, i.e. public money :
1. General funding for Opposition Parties: the amount payable is £18,407.21 for every seat won at the last GE (£3.6M) + £36.76 for every 200 votes won.
The last GE cost Labour £1.2M
1. General funding for Opposition Parties: the amount payable is £18,407.21 for every seat won at the last GE (£3.6M) + £36.76 for every 200 votes won.
The last GE cost Labour £1.2M
In contrast the @LibDems receive £220,000 for their 12 seats @the Greens, with one seat only must secure at least 150,000 votes & receive a pitiful amount. Both parties increased their vote share but not their seats - in fact the LD lost one (now back at 12 due to Chesham)
Under a system allocating money according to vote share (11.5% and 2.7% respectively)
- The LD would have received nearly £1.8
- The Greens £324,000
- The LD would have received nearly £1.8
- The Greens £324,000
2. Travel Expenses for Opposition Parties – the total amount payable is £202,213.04 apportioned between each of the Opposition parties in the same proportion as the amount given to each of them under the basic funding scheme set out above i.e. the number of seats.
3. Under the third component of the scheme, @keirstarmer receives a flat fee of £857,596.87 for the running costs of the Leader of the Opposition’s office.
All the amounts above are as at 1.04.2021.
All the amounts above are as at 1.04.2021.
What is the Labour machine doing with our cash?
Well, apart from paying themselves salaries, they mostly spend it on legal proceedings against other Labour members.
Yes: not on preparing their campaign: on lawyers' fees.
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
Well, apart from paying themselves salaries, they mostly spend it on legal proceedings against other Labour members.
Yes: not on preparing their campaign: on lawyers' fees.
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
Are you happy to fund Labour? I know I am not. No wonder the party apparatchiks and the Labour machine cling so desperately to their status of eternal second. No wonder they cling desperately to FPTP: FPTP IS THE GRAVY TRAIN POWERING THE LABOUR MACHINE.
If you want a fairer system, Labour must be destroyed
as well as the Tories, but it goes without saying. The 2 parties are complicit in robbing us of true democracy and a fair society
*£1.8M
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