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Originally Posted by BASILDON BOY
You have to start somewhere?
Exactly how long does it take UKIP to get started? How long has it existed?
There is something flawed with the whole election strategy. We need more votes for every £1 spent. UKIP complains about EU waste but just look how much is wasted during election campaigns!
If this was The Apprentice I think the answer would be - "You are all fired!"
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Well (glibbly) spoken! (Words are so cheap aren't they !!).
Well
of course we need more bangs per buck! Any fule nows that!
So: clever Dick! - then just how do you propose to change the political situation to obtain "more votes per £1 spent"? .... Go out and offer money for people to vote for us perhaps?? (Illegal old boy! - in case you didn't know.)
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With every by-election the problem always is the same: go short on the expenses and have a lacklustre, mediocre campaign; or, spend the money and go to town on it with all the razamatazz?
You people are so naive in what you say - you haven't a bloomin' clue! To know what it is
really all about - go ask Steve Allison about it - he will give you chapter and verse! I guarantee you will be
amazed! You will come away very chastened indeed.
If you spend just a
nominal amount on leaflets (and you need really at least three leaflet postings as an absolute minimum to be up with the big boys league of the LibLabCon) you can knock up a bill for thousands (£5K minimum) on them alone. Super quality colour printing - double - nay - treble that!
Then there is the distribution. Volunteers are just not enough; so if you start to pay people for 'professional' distribution, there is another good few thousand pounds. Then there are posters (if you can find the sites at £2000 a pop); and advertising in media.. and expenses for the rent of 'committee rooms' and phone lines to be installed ........ and so on and on ....
It takes an
absolute minimum of £10K to make a fair show at a by-election, and prefereably £15K is more realistic for a de minimus campaign. £20K and you are getting somewhere at today's prices.
The others spend much more.
Bottom line always though ... get on the ballot paper and do whatever you can with whatever you have got. (And that applies to ANY election).
No need to 'brush aside' anything ....
It really
is that simple.....
.......you are either IN the game or you are OUT.
Take your pick.
Whatever way ... it takes
money! ... lots of it!
A la - Harry Enfield ... LOOADS-A-MONEY!!
DED.
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