You can now join Your Party. For £55 per year. It costs £25 to join Reform UK, £39 to join the Conservative Party, and £70.50 to join the Labour Party. No change there. Back in the Blair years, when I used to point out that Labour Party membership was far more expensive than joining the other side, then I would be told that it was “still cheaper than the National Trust”, and that that was what mattered.
The old excuse was that the Conservatives, and it would also now apply to Reform, were bankrolled by giant corporations and by super-rich individuals. But so was Labour when it was last in government and I, for my sins, was a member. Yet it was noticeably more expensive then, too. No union is funding Your Party, if any ever will, nor does it have an unlimited overdraft that the Co-operative Bank would never dream of calling in because it was family. Somehow, however, the party in those circumstances is nearly twice as expensive to join.
Where did the money go?
ReplyDeleteThat is why it is called disclosure.
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