The latest round of election donations published by the Electoral Commission have seen a much more accurate set of media reports than previous figures.
As I’d previously pointed out the figures published by the Electoral Commission are far from comprehensive as they exclude small donations and also all donations, of any size, given directly to candidates. However the media reports have previously treated the figures for declarable donations given to parties as if they were actual donation totals.
This time round though, helped by the Commission making its news release (even) clearer, the media has mostly got it right. Who knows, a journalist or two may even have read this site and been influenced too…
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Someone doesn’t like John Bercow – 2 donations totalling £20k for his constituency. We should be so lucky – £120K for the whole country…
Terry: except, as I’ve blogged, it’s not £120k for the whole country – that figures excludes donations under the threshold and excludes all donations direct to the council. The total is much greater.
If the party was just over one million at the start of the campaign and is now nudging four million, its had a lot of money in – fact. It could not have done that if it was not a lot more, a heck of a lot more, than the 120,000 the EC say was donated. So, must have been a VAST number of smaller donations under the 7,500 limit of the radar.