Boris shamelessly calls for ‘cash for access’


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9:30 am - March 28th 2012

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Wealthy supporters were told:

You have been sent an invitation to join CLUB 305 – please consider this invitation to play your key role backing Boris’s campaign for re-election. Membership is at a suggested fee of £2,012.

According to Political Scrapbook:

The 305 Club dates back to at least July 2011, when, fittingly, 305 members were expected to attend the first meeting. The event was a flop, however, with reports that the numbers were “less than 50 per cent” of what BoJo hoped.

Boris as shameless as ever. What are the chances the Evening Standard will cover this?

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1. CTD

Or the Telegraph?

2. Tim J

What’s that? A club that people can join if they give large donations to the party, that then gives them exclusive access to events and politicians? I am shocked, shocked!

http://www.labour.org.uk/thousand_club

Less handbag clutching is needed. This is a much better way of raising money than giving party donors peerages, or passports, or endorsements for corporate takeovers, or exemptions for their sport from advertising bans.

3. Andreas Moser

“Membership is at a suggested fee of £2,012.”
If it is only suggested, does this mean we could also show up for free?

4. Richard

‘@Tim J

“What’s that? A club that people can join if they give large donations to the party, that then gives them exclusive access to events and politicians? I am shocked, shocked!

http://www.labour.org.uk/thousand_club”

The Thousand Club page doesn’t mention exclusive access to politicans. There are Q + A events, but that’s a long way from exclusive access to politicians.

5. Tim J

4 – Exclusive events for a donor’s club is getting access to politicians – unless you’re suggesting that the Q & As aren’t with politicians.

And for God’s sake – this is just how parties raise money. What do you think Ed Miliband was doing in Aseem Allam’s Rolls Royce?

6. Cherub

Chicken feed, surely?


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