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UK general election campaign
Average spending per candidate standing in the UK general election, 2010. for £3,489 (US$5,352) from electoral_comission
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You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
Shopping list
You can buy all of the following:
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1 Nissan Micra
Car for £7,820 (US$12 thousand) -
1 Question in the UK parliament
Payments made to MPs to table parliamentary questions, 1994. for £2 thousand (US$3,068) from wikipedia -
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1 Housing benefit
Average (mean) weekly housing benefit claim in the UK, July 2011 for £87.18 (US$133.70) from source -
500 McFlurries
McDonald's Ice Cream for £1.20 (US$1.84)