www.euromillion.com – A study into the Big Lottery Fund, the organisation that deals with cash for good causes from the UK National Lottery has shown that Labour Party constituencies in the UK get far more funding for good causes than the constituencies of any other political party.
Labour areas in fact get four times more cash than Conservative areas and even more than that in Liberal Democrat constituencies.
The study has raised concerns on lottery cash and spending and whether the Labour party is using lottery cash to sweeten its grassroots areas.
The party strenuously deny any allegations of wrongdoing, citing the fact that Labour constituencies are just naturally more deprived areas and that would lead to a misrepresentative figure, making it look like the National Lotto Big Lottery fund is actually giving these areas preferential treatment.
It’s hard to deny the allegations though when you consider that the top five community projects funded by the national Lottery big lottery fund in 2008 were all Labour areas, every single one.
This just gives more weight to the Conservative party regards the upcoming elections and will do no good for the Labour party’s already dwindling popularity.
Conservative have now made it part of their manifesto to ensure that cash is distributed fairly if they should come to power. euromillion.com
