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Where Labour and the Tories got their money from in 2023 (www.opendemocracy.net)

submitted 7 months ago by Jho@feddit.uk to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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All parties declared more than £93m in total compared with £52m in the previous year.

The Conservatives received the most donations by far, raking in £44.5m in cash, compared with Labour’s total of £21.6m, £6m for the Liberal Democrats, £610,000 for the Green Party and £255,000 for Reform. The SNP registered only £76,000 cash donations in 2023.

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[–] tla@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And which of these individuals / companies have been awarded government contracts? Funneling public money into the Tory party coffers is par for the course for these leeches.

[–] GuStJaR@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm sure every single one of them would have benefited more than the sum of their donations. The rich very rarely give their money away for nothing in return.