Takes lobbying to a whole new level:

… The precise amount raised from the 2013 event cannot be quantified, but Electoral Commission filings show that since the ball those present have donated a total £5m, £1.1m of which was registered in the week after the event. Table sales raised at least £250,000, with the cheaper tickets going for £400 a time. …

… The summer party is the Conservatives’ second largest fundraiser after the winter “black and white ball”. Altogether, guests at the event have donated an estimated £22m to the Conservative party since records began in 2001, either in a private capacity and through companies of which they are directors. …

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/01/-sp-tory-summer-party-drew-super-rich-supporters-with-total-wealth-of-11bn

The article goes on to detail the presence of numerous international billionaires and Russian oligarchs including Vladimir Putin’s judo partner.

In the interests of political neutrality, we will be happy to receive and publish similar current information about other political parties or individuals.

Here is the data about the missing 6% of voters. They appear to form an almost perfect bell curve with the largest losses concentrated in the middle-size areas in percentage terms. Page 1 is a frequency chart, page 2 is the raw data by area and page 3 is an analysis of the raw data.

EDDC electors

A report in today’s Western Morning News is about trying to avoid a parliamentary constituency which straddles Devon and Cornwall. This was brought about because there is a strict rule that no parliamentary constituency must be more than 5% larger or 5% smaller than any other.

We are missing 6% of our electors ….. could it be a requirement that our political boundary should be redrawn if they reappeared or the number increased beyond that of 2013 as might be expected? Was this what brought the new constituencies of East Devon and Honiton to Tiverton into being? Might another redrawing of the boundary be required?

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Devonwall-avoided-political-map-drawn-say/story-21312370-detail/story.html

and here is the relevant legislation:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/1/section/11/enacted

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011

….. Electorate per constituency
2(1)The electorate of any constituency shall be—
(a)no less than 95% of the United Kingdom electoral quota, and
(b)no more than 105% of that quota.
…..