With the recent pay-per-view Prime Minister scandal and the publicity over Conservative Party “Donor Clubs“, I was interested what a donation to each of the main parties got you.

I did class the Lib Dems as a main party, but they don’t tempt you with what your money buys so aren’t included below.

So here’s what you get:

• Labour: £5 – Leaflets for two streets
• Labour: £10 – Window posters for 150 houses
• Labour: £25 – 250 campaign balloons
• Conservative: £30 1,000 campaign leaflets
• Labour: £50 – Leaflets for twenty streets
• Conservative: £50 200 personalised letters
• Conservative: £75 200 welcome packs to new home owners
• Labour: £100 – 2000 text messages
• Conservative: £365 Telephone canvassing 2000 people
• Labour: £250 – Phone calls to five streets of voters
• Labour: £500 – Direct mail to 2000 voters
• Conservative: £600 – 1500 newsletters. An annual donation also entitles you to join Party Patron’s Donor Club
• Labour: £1200 – Entitles you to join Thousand Club

• Conservative donation page:  www.conservatives.com/Donate.aspx
• Labour donation page: https://www.labour.org.uk/donate/

For further comparison, here’s what similar amounts of money can buy if given to the Red Cross (other charities in need are also available):

• £25 could provide ten mosquito nets.
• £40 could buy rice for one person for over three months.
• £80 could help twenty people by providing feed for their animals.