How Labour could pay for its leadership ballot

An issue that has been raised is that Labour could struggle t pay for the cost of its leadership ballot, as the last one was estimated to cost $80,000 or so.

A friend of mine is standing for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, and they have an interesting funding model:

The party requires a registration fee of $75,000 from leadership candidate and a refundable deposit of $25,000.

Make the candidates pay! If David Cunliffe still has his secret trust, he could fundraise through that.

The party demands that the PC Ontario Fund get a 20% cut of the fundraising after the first $100,000 and those voting for the leader must be a member of the Ontario PCs by Feb. 28, 2015.

And they take a percentage of the fundraising.