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Originally Posted by Tasty1
If you want to do it right, it will cost much more than 15-20 hours a week.
You need a team to work things out, talk to people, work with action groups.
And everyone has different interest.
Alone it will be to much work if there are many topics.
And prepared for lies during campaigning. Just say they are lying if you think they are lying. And most are lying.
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Thankfully, it doesnt work like that in the UK, unless youre running for Prime Minister or leader for a party.
As I said, the budget that I'm legally allowed to spend is around $0.06 per head, 8000 ish constituents - around $480 total between the date I'm officially declared a candidate until the local election, May 7th 2026.
Also, I'm allowed to accept donations, but anything over £50 has to be reported, so a 'grassroots' effort where the max donation amount from an individual is £45 works well, businesses can donate as much as they like, it just has to be reported to the election commission.
Of course, that doesnt stop me spending money (time) beforehand on stuff like building a campaign website, designing flyers, business cards, etc... I just cant do it after becoming a registered candidate or it'll eat up my entire allowable spend and, anything 'donated' such as flyers, web design, etc after being registered, has its value attached and comes off the $480 total spend or I'd be in breach of election law here in the UK.
Basically, the date I submit my intent to run forms, I can't spend shit, it's all got to be volunteers doing the door-to-door stuff, kicking babies, hugging dogs, holding events, etc, etc...