UKIP has unveiled its latest fundraising wheeze, the “UK12 Donor Club”, a scheme to sign up a group of supporters so loaded they can afford, if they are mug enough, to keep both Leader and Chairman salaried for the year.
Only twelve places, says Tenconi selling the scheme, as if they’re recruiting apostles rather than high‑net‑worth sympathisers with a taste for purple branding. The price of admission: a snip at £1,000 a month for a year.
Yes, that’s right, a grand a month. Each.
Group therapy
A grand a month for the privilege of a quarterly dinner with the Leader, a gold‑plated pin, and biweekly Zooms that presumably double as group therapy for anyone still insisting the party is “on the brink of a comeback”.
It’s all delivered with the reverence of a Sunday service, which brings us neatly back to young Tenconi – yesterday’s devout altar boy of the movement leading his followers in prayer before processing through a Muslim area of Birmingham, purely in the interests of better interfaith relations with people they want to deport.
Sacred work
One can picture him now at the quarterly dinner, swinging his thurible and wafting incense over the faithful as he invites them to “dig deep for the sacred work of mass deportations”.
The collection plate, naturally, is contactless.
It’s the sort of exclusivity that suggests the real miracle will be anyone signing up at all.
A reader has sent us this glorious collection of responses to the scheme. Definitely worth a browse…
