20 July 2010
Discounts for Tories
Nick Holdstock · Blackwell's Special Offer
A friend who works in my local Blackwell’s told me that Conservative Party members get a discount at the bookshop. This seemed so unlikely that I phoned the Blackwell’s helpline pretending to be a paid-up Tory, and sure enough was told that I would get 20 per cent off. Joining the Conservative Party costs £25 a year: if you spend £125 a year on books at Blackwells you essentially get your party membership for free (a less catchy offer perhaps than ‘3 for 2’). It’s unclear, though, how the Tories’ encouraging people to shop at Blackwell’s fits in with their alleged support for small shops, unless they mean the smaller branches of Blackwell’s.
Comments
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20 July 2010
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4:35pm
pinhut
says:
"Joining the Conservative Party costs £25 a year: if you spend £125 a year on books at Blackwells essentially get your party membership for free..."
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20 July 2010
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10:30pm
Pete Hindle
says:
@
pinhut
Have to agree; I'd usually do anything for cheaper books, and the chance to support meatspace book vendors... but this time, the cost is too steep.
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21 July 2010
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9:59am
Amen.
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21 July 2010
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10:19am
And to preempt anyone from giving them a whole twenty-five quid, it actually says that you can get all their benefits by becoming a "friend" of the Tory party at a minimum outlay (though the cost to your soul stays the same) of only £1.
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21 July 2010
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3:45pm
pinhut
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A.J.P. Crown
The Affinity Programme is presently being urbanised, it will be relaunced as The Naff, 'Innit? Programme in 2011.
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22 July 2010
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8:11pm
alex
says:
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A.J.P. Crown
How much does it cost to become an enemy of the Tory Party? 2 Euros?
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21 July 2010
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9:31am
Joe Morison
says:
Weird and depressing.
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22 July 2010
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4:54pm
dragbert
says:
While if you're a Bullingdon Club member, or friends of the Bullingdon Club you get to trash the shop and pay for 25% of the damage.
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23 July 2010
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12:48pm
coolraoul
says:
Wait til you see the Ryanair deal.
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24 July 2010
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9:13pm
Matthew Bionic
says:
I know several Blackwells staff, and they are all horrified at Tories getting discounts. They're all screaming lefties.
Read moreOne has also stained irreparably the soul.
When I tried to find out more about the benefits, by clicking the link to the so-called Affinity Programme, "the requested document was not found". Well, at least it's consistent. Conservatives. Turning Britain around!