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Osborne’s local Conservative Club could close due to “lack of funds”

August 29, 2012 2:54 pm

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George Osborne may be preaching financial restraint at a national level, but it seems that an organisation close to his heart is short of cash. Manchester Eveming News reports:

“Chancellor George Osborne is trying to steer the country through one of the worst financial crises in history.

But his help maybe needed a little closer to home – after it emerged the Conservative Club at the heart of his Cheshire constituency is under threat because of a lack of funds.

Knutsford Conservative Club is in a building that is also home to Tatton MP George Osborne’s constituency office.”

There’s no news on whether or not they ‘failed to fix the roof while the sun was shining’, but presumably the poor state of the economy hasn’t helped their plight…

Serbitar

Perhaps George can use some of the dividend paid to him from the family firm of wallpaper purveyors Osborne & Little to bail them out… oh… hang on… the firm didn’t do well enough to pay a dividend last year did it? Fiddlesticks!
NT86

Could it be somewhat to do with the overall decline in Conservative membership perhaps? There were reports not too long ago about how party political membership (across all the main ones) has fallen in recent years whilst membership of organisations like the National Trust and the RSPB has been on the rise.

I read on the Independent blog that the Tory campaign HQ here in Sheffield (hardly a blue heartland, but still…) is so cash strapped that it’s closing and moving operations over to Rotherham.
- MarcusTankus
  
  So how does this compare to labour party finances them ?
- LordElpus
  
  And when you take into account the Labour Party won’t even publish membership data you have to wonder who’s ignoring the basic facts of membership across all political parties.

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