I can't fathom being so dedicated to a political party that I'd leave them money in my will.

“The Tories money comes from wealthy backers” I am shocked. When I looked at their track record I thought they were for the poor and the workers and public services…let’s look at that record. They introduced the bedroom tax, making thousands of not millions poorer and forcing them out of their homes. Deported black British pensioners and pretended they weren’t citizens to appeal to xenophobes. Reduced the bands on tax credits creating a benefit cliff-edge for support and pushing the vulnerable to poverty. Cut police jobs by around 40,000 (over 20,000 officers and slightly less for support staff) Cut council funding pushing some councils near bankruptcy. Oversaw Royal Mail privatisation, the same privatised Royal Mail that’s so much better according to their managers they’re losing a million pounds a day (guess that £400 million to shareholders was a bad idea) Decimated widows benefit (who gives a shit about widows with kids) Reduced Disability Benefits (and was famously challenged over this during the 2017 election) Added a sadistic 5 week waiting period on universal credit. Only covered 2 children with universal credit pushing more children into poverty Started the ideological stupidity of pursuing the most damaging Brexit imaginable then still claim it’s not done. Had their own social mobility board resign en masse as they were doing nothing to aid social mobility. Failed to tackle the ongoing housing crisis. Failed to tackle inequality. Blamed the young for their being “too many”, yes, “TOO MANY” Foodbanks (oh yeah, cause before 2010 young people…didn’t exist) Oversaw a reduction in life expectancy Allowed shit to be dumped in our rivers and seas. Produced a bill to force workers to work at risk of sacking or suing. Produced a bill to (effectively) ban peaceful protests. Produced a bill that makes whistle-blowing harder as journalists can be jailed for reporting. Effectively ban experts who openly disagree with them from advising government, even if they are the best in their field. Said the poor shouldn’t get coffees from a cafe. Said the poor shouldn’t buy name-brand food. Said the poor should get rid of Netflix. Said the poor should exist on meals that cost no more than 30p Had a go at civil servants for being snowflakes who were (allegedly) bullied by Dominic Raab. A chancellor who avoided tax and another whose tax affairs were questionable. A PM who broke parliamentary standards so changed the rules as he was never going to change himself. They have ALWAYS been out for the wealthy but previously tossed more crumbs to make sure the poorest could survive at least. Now they’re not even doing that as they run the country into the ground. We need more Labour, more Lib Dem’s and more Greens and less blues in parliament. Hopefully some form of PR and votes for 16 year olds will help achieve this.

The problem with conservatism is that you eventually run out of others people’s money.

The Tories' money problem is very simple; they don't want anybody other than themselves to have any.

After UK left EU , Brits have realised that they can no longer blame EU for the state their country find herself in and that it was UK INCOMPETENT Politicians unable to solve UK problems all along

£2 million loss? Rishi Sunak could pay that himself from his loose change. If they all just had a whip round, they could easily double their pot.

The thing is though the tories don't need to spend money campaigning... the Sun and Daily Mail do that for them for free!

The people they are willing to tax don't have much money left. And the people they are idealogicaly opposed to taxing, are the only people left with any money, in fact an increasing amount.

Makes sense can't be a conservative if you've got nothing to conserve

You tend to run out of money when you pocket it all.

The 13 years of tories make gordon brown look like a saint lol. Tories trying hard to hold on to number 10 hahaha. I want tories to lose so badly that they start to hide 😂😂😂

*HE IS NOT BOTHERED ABOUT WINNING* of achieving pledges - its all about lining his families pockets wiht British Tax Payers *CASH*

I was still waking up when I saw this and read "are the Terrorists out of money?" ... Well done brain.

I'm thinking that legacy payments are going to drop to nothing soon because of the age of their supporters. Once that generation is gone, they have no one.

That's the problem with capitalism, eventually you run out of other people's money.

5:30 the fact people donate to a political party even in death seems crazy, there was no charity or family members that were a better fit?

How can 'the party of economic competence' end up being short of money after spaffing so much public money to their mates? Perhaps they should try crowd funding.

Given the way they've thrown a wrecking ball through the UK economy - they should pay for it all out of their own pocket. You'd have to be Mad to donate to them.

The electoral commission includes pretty strict finance rules, which the parties can ignore if they wish, whilst the electoral commission tuts loudly.

The irony of the tories being hard up is amazing

To all those people saying we’re poor and we can’t afford anything I would say this… So with yet more news about the greed of bosses I thought I’d give my take on the reality of pay in the U.K. here it is… Last year, after nine years working for BT I left. It also marked the first time in my life I have ever been on strike. You see the BT management during the usual round of pay talks indicated that, during a cost of living (cost of greed) crisis there was just no money for the workers. They were flat broke for workers’ pay. I’m completely unrelated news the had also paid out £700 million to shareholders. £700 million. £700,000,000 I went in one day when others were on strike and the disdain I witnessed from some of the managers was absolutely disgusting. If the workers and union members had been there they’d have probably organised a mass walkout till BT apologised. It was disgusting, especially when you remember how the workers kept working during Covid when they could, with others working from home. This year some of those loyal workers were advised they’d be replaced by AI chatbots. Good luck with that. After all, it worked so well with outsourcing customer services roles didn’t it? The truth is the money is there. Royal Mail also tried this shit with their staff after paying out £400 million in share dividends, with fears they could declare the letters part of the business bankrupt to just keep the money making parcels bit. Making hundreds of millions in profit simply not being enough for them. The money is there. Over the last few years the Tories have wasted so much money it’s ridiculous. the Tories have spent £480,000,000 on the French. £29,000,000,000 track and trace. £15,000,000,000 PPE written off £17,000,000,000 bounce-back loans written off. Between £30,000,000,000 and £50,000,000,000 on the disastrous mini budget giving money to the rich before no doubt cutting it for everyone else. A mere £11,000,000 on trying to develop our own Covid app when one already existed. Between £12,000,000,000 and £20,000,000,000 to fraud via Universal Credit when previously Tax Credits were extremely robust when it comes to fraud. £222,000 for Boris Johnson’s legal fees. £140,000,000 for Rwanda scheme which has sent NO refugees. £33,000,000 for Eurostar over the ferries debacle £340,000 to settle Priti Patel’s bullying case. £655,000,000 lost to a conman due to council cuts and restrictions lifted on what councils can spend £102,000,000,000 for a vastly reduced HS2 And Christ knows how much it cost for the plague barge the Pippy Stockholm-Syndrome. The money is there. What is happening is the establishment since 2008 has closed ranks, shutting people at the bottom out as they funnel ever more money to the top whilst feeding crumbs to the masses, all the while telling us we’re wasting money whilst they piss it away with crypto scams, banking failures and stock disasters like the GameStop/AMC debacle as they try to destroy good businesses whilst funding fraudulent and dodgy ones like Wirecard, FTX, Nikolai Trucks, Celsius (whom I believe has now been charged and is no longer alleged) Greensill Capital. The money is there, these greedy slime just don’t want ordinary people to have it.

It's rather fitting that Sunak is holding a bag with $ sign on it. He loves California and dinning there with private healhcare provider reps.

Would be pretty funny if they have to do austerity on their own campaign 😂

I'm sure Rishi Sunak could find the money down the back of his sofa.

"They are gonna need a bigger note" *Keir starmer at PMQs*

While Sunak is spunking £10m a day on the illegal boat rats, what does he expect?

Maybe you should expand a bit on "pretty strict campaign finance rules" in case some of our American friends are watching. They may not be familiar with the concept. 😀

The poor dears. If any of us had any money left, we'd of been able to of had a whip around

The Tories could always cancel their Netflix accounts and stop buying coffee from coffee shops...

What i gathered from this is that UK politics are pointless. No matter who you vote for, it's whoever has the most money. Democracy? Nah. Oligarchy? Absolutely

Comparing UK election money to the US is sad. The amount of wasted money in US elections is just tragic. The amount of graft in US campaign financing is astronomical. So much of that money is better used virtually anywhere. US dark money contributions show how American politicians are bought.

If only Sunak had a mugshot to plaster on merch for some quick cash.

If the parties had to rely on subscriptions from members, they would have to make themselves more appealing and open to membership and would have less to spend on telling lies. The Tories' not providing membership info is typical. Also, £250k is 'peanuts' according to a former leader, so he and Rich Sunak could easily boost the finances.

How much wealth is the Royal Family hoarding, during a cost of living crisis?

It’s so hilarious that Ritchie is going to lose to the least competent Labour leader in the history of the party.

Ah...19 million only? Sunak spends that in a day!

I would urge everyone to vote for anyone except Conservative or Labour in the next General Election to shake the whole system up and send a hard message to these muppets.

Can't he just give out ludicrous contracts to his mates using taxpayers' money in exchange for donations?

There corporate backers will disappear when they are not in power to give them back handers.... cast them into Oblivion !

This problem is COMPOUNDED, not counfounded 🤣🤣🤣

Sunak could fund his campaign with a rounding error

Maybe they'd have some if they stopped hoarding it all away in offshore tax havens.

If they bring me their empty money bags I'll fill them up with liquid gold!

Usually when the Tories have been in for a few years we get to see them get humiliated on election night when the vote totals are announced. This time most of the most egregious ones simply won't bother running for re-election so we will be denied seeing the smugness draining from their faces.

Well, a lot of those business owners have less money to give them, due to Brexit. They should be proud of their achievements.

As an American, it’s hilarious how little money this all is. The last presidential election saw over $4 billion in spending.

They are definitely out of ideas!

What really baffles me is why it is compulsory to have any party membership and finances visible to all... why do the Tories get to not publish membership details such as how many members they have and how much has been donated, no one needs individual details but surely we need some level of detail to ensure our parties are clean of corruption or foreign influence?

They gave it all away to donors and friends

What happens if I print 1,000 vote Tory posters on my own bat? Does the cost come off the limit for the conservatives, even if they weren’t even consulted?

Brexit... As a result of a general reduction of money flowing into the country through EU citizens, migrants, trade deals etc which all ended through Brexit, the UK government is running out of money. The UK is becoming poor.

well they must be to justify not paying their taxes while sapping every penny out if the everyday person

There is a glimmer of hope that old school Tories, those that donate and leave money in wills are finally dying out as a breed. Can we dream that this is the start of the end of them as a political party.

Depressing to see the Labour Party being supported by rich the donor class and not grassroots support. Reeves is so far to the right economically she might as well be sitting next to Sunak. Nothing will change for the majority of us... just more misery.

Donors, whether large or small, tend not to back losers or those who are widely perceived to be heading for a loss and it's difficult to imagine any scenario where the Tories would do anything but lose; likely quite badly, next time out. Those with the means to support certain parties or candidates are keeping it stashed away for a time when they are more competitive. No sense pissing it away on a lost cause.

The Tories not being able to keep their own books in the black when the country needs stability to stay in the black itself feels like the easiest win at the dispatch box for the opposition this Wednesday

We didn't want him, he was forced upon the public and this country, he wasn't even wanted by the tories internally at first so I doubt the tories will survive

Who in their right mind would leave the Tory party money in their will???? People really are stupid.

“Navigated a turbulent 2022” is the finest example of politicking I’ve ever seen.

Out of money-- is the treasury empty?

Are we surprised when Prof. Minford serves as their brain.

Somewhat ironic the Party that claims to be best for the economy and are the most fiscally responsible seem to regularly run at a loss. This is not the first time in recent years that the Tories have been close to bankruptcy but this time they don't have the Russians to help bail them out. You have to ask the question that if the members of the Tory party choose their leader and ultimately the Prime Minister just why are their membership numbers clouded in mystery? Just how many foreign nationals do they have as members, foreign nationals who are not eligible to vote in UK elections but are able to have a vote in who the Prime Minister might be.

There's no source listed for the graph at 4:33. Given you say immediately before it that membership numbers can be unreliable, I'd be interested to know where you got this.

Sounds like they need to tighten their belts and stop spending money on fancy nail art, cigarette and start eating beans on toast more 🤔 ... Which is a genuine conversation i had with a proud conservative today about the "non existant" cost of living crisis, and how prople want to be poor.

I think we should ban all political party funded advertising. There is no way of implementing it without creating corruption, bias and unfairness in a democratic system.

Who needs money if you have rivers full of raw sewage?

"Undermining his credentials as a competent legislator." I'd like you to be able to support that assertion with some evidence. As chancellor, he neglected to do his job losing millions of pounds, threw money at PPE frauds, had money falsely taken in job support during covid, and printed lots of money helping fuel inflation. All of which he can't be arsed to get back. Just what exactly did he do that was competent? Was it has impressive arrogance and lies at PMQs? Was it his 'turning back the boats' ...? Reinstating Braverman? Breaking the law, being unlawful, or simply turning a blind eye towards corruption - including his own. I can't see anything competent as a legislator.

They should be the way sunak throws our cash around like confetti!

The Tories can't even run a bath.

Ireland 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 is part of the European Union. Ireland is not part of the UK.

Thank you TLDR

They are trillions in debt. But never mind, everything's rosie. 😂.

The problem with toryism is they always run out of their own money

5:35 One thing ill never understand is leaving money to a political party in your will. Just seems so bizarre

The ONLY issue here for the tory party IS ...........in the dying days of their corrupt government/regime , just how much taxpayers cash can anyone of them manage to trouser if they have not already done so.......for sure, some at the top end have made sure of their share & ARE looking forward to their very comfortable 2nd & 3rd jobs incomes...

Lol...the Tories will never be out of money...they probably have 10 members who are billionaires...

So who wants to elect a party that's not very responsible with their money? That is the reason why the economy is in the position that is in and nearly financially skewered ourselves by putting someone with no economic ideas of what she was doing. You want that: for another 5+ years?

Ireland 🇮🇪 is not part of the UK. Ireland 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 is part of the European Union.

3:58 alongside with funerals but definitely parties.

"look to be in a spot of trouble" is British for "seem to be totally f--ked" right? Thats some strong language to open a piece with.

All party shouldn't have to use money. If they have done a good job. Its up to the public to judge them by their policy which in many cases are very corrupted ones. Politicians today are ignoring their citizens and only bowing to companies and media agenda. Truth matters not lies.

Come on. RISHI is doing a bang-up job! He does his job, you get banged up🙀

Meaning rich people support labor, as they are the establishment by now. 47 M doesn't come from 400k member fees. Both parties suck and are payed for by the rich. Poor people, meaning every 5th UK resident can't afford to waste money on such frivolity.

I thought the Tory cronies who benefitted from pandemic contracts would donate to the Conservative party. It seems like that wasn't part of the deal.

I recon when labour takes power, the new chancellor will have a note on their desk saying, "Sorry mate, all the money's gone. :D"

So the UK is gonna be okay? And here I thought it was one overturned shopping cart in Tesco parking lot away from two tone mohawks and leather chaps.

Rishi should implement austerity for the party I guess.

Billionaire Sunak doesn't even like the Tories enough to donate to them.

"Last week though, it became clear that things might be getting even worse" So a normal Monday in the UK then?

These figures show that we urgently need a new way of financing politics. The scope for "buying" influence is way too high.

We should get rid of all donations and sponsorship from elections the government should give out money to parties so our politicians are not so easily bought out before even being elected

Can you call the Tories by their proper party name, please? The Conservatwats

so companies rather to buy the Tories in the Labour party than the Tories in the Tory party, no one want to bet to a dead horse, but if the same money goes to a "different" party the same policies will be applied.

If only the Tories stopped buying smashed avocados abd expensive coffee they'd be fine. Pull up their socks

I guess Richie Rich will have to pay out himself...

It's under Sunak's bed ...

Sunak could literally pull 19 Mill room his own pocket, no problem. They don't need funding. 🤔

Sunak needs to get finances of something other than his own family into shape? Tories are buggered then given his track record as both chancellor and PM.

On the subject of lack of Governmental funds, perhaps you could do a story on why the UK is still providing financial aid to India when they have a space programme that has just successfully landed on the Moon? Is there an obscure reason why that funding wouldn't be better kept in the UK to pay decent wages to the Police, Teachers, NHS staff, etc.?

They stole everything already?