Competition time

Devon Socialist Party are launching two new competitions with cash prizes!

The Socialist Party needs money raised from members subscriptions and through 'fighting fund' raised in order to print all our materials, maintain premises and equipment in our central offices, pay full-time party workers and arrange events, book venues etc. However, such is the nature of our party that our members are not wealthy and big business aren't queuing up to fund us like the three main parties! We therefore need to run competitions like these to raise funds to enable us to continue our work, fighting against cuts and privatisation and building the ideas of socialism and the Campaign for a New Workers' Party.

The competitions we are announcing today are a Rugby World Cup 2007 sweepstake and the 2007-2008 season football manager sack race sweepstake. Both are £2 for each entry, but there are cash prizes of £10 and £50 respectively for the winners.

The Rugby World Cup sweepstake is simple. You simply pay £2 and are randomly assigned a team.

The football manager sweepstake is nearly as simple. You pay £2 and are randomly assigned a number from 0 to 92. The numbers correspond to the number of Football League and Premiership teams who have the same team manager (or head coach in some cases) at the final whistle on the respective last days of the season, as at kick off on the first day of the 2007-08 season. For instance, if you get 64, you will be aiming for 64 Football eague and Premiership teams having the same manager at the end of the season that they started with.

Incidentally, to illustrate this post I have chosen a picture of Wigan boss Chris Hutchings. For no particular reason, naturally....

If you want to enter please email socialistpartydevon@googlemail.com or come along to an event being held by us (or email us and arrange to meet one of us at or on the way to a national event!). Hope to hear from you soon.