[ABANDONED] Oh Corbo, Oh!

[Bears Armed]

(The current title will probably not be the final title: maybe ‘Pop go The Parties’, instead?)

This draft was inspired by a recent event in Britain. Labour’s current leader Jeremy Corbyn has seemingly managed to attract significant support from among younger voters, and was applauded (with cries including “Oh Jezza, Oh!”, hence the working title used here…)[/i] when he made a speech at the Glastonbury Festival, so the decision was made to hold a combined pop concert & Labour political rally in London this year. Ticket sales for this were initially lower than anticipated, and cheaper tickets were then offered to party members (to the vocal annoyance of some of the people who had already paid full price), but the event still ran at a significant financial loss: The [presumably approximate] figures that I saw quoted were “£100 per head” and a total of £400’000… I’ve increased those numbers here for dramatic effect. Does anybody have a reasonably justified exchange rate between £ and Nationstates’s ‘SMU? Do you think that the validity for this issue should be limited on the basis of average income so that the numbers used are still comparable in actual value to the RL figures? (EDIT: I’ve removed the actual numbers, for now and replaced them with just “at a significant financial loss”, so that these questions don’t matter.)
‘Charles Sourcheese’, the speaker in option 3, was an editorial creation for issue #934: Think in terms of the RL Charles Saatchi…

Oh Corbo, Oh!

[issue] There were smiles all round at your Party’s headquarters this evening, when news came in that the Opposition's attempt at using a pop concert to attract voters to a political rally had been under-attended and ended up running at a significant financial loss.
[validity] Democracy

[option] "Hah! So much for their claims that they could give the country sound financial management!" gloats your own Party Treasurer, @@RANDOMNAME@@. "We'll be able to hold this over their head for years."
[validity] unrestricted
[effect] Opposition politicians' speeches on the economy are often drowned out by Government supporters singing pop songs

[option] "We're currently a bit ahead in the opinion polls," comments @@RANDOMNAME@@, your Campaign Manager, "So why not call a snap election now, while the Opposition’s funds being that much lower than usual means that they can't campaign as effectively as they might manage later on?"
[validity] unrestricted
[effect] (I still need an effect line for this option: Any suggestions?)

[option] "Should I just scrap this idea, then?" PR man Charles Sourcheese asks sadly, holding out a folder that you know contains the plans for an even grander combined festival/rally than the Opposition's recent one.
[validity] unrestricted
[effect] people are expelled from political gatherings for whistling a happy tune

[option] "No!" exclaims @@RANDOMNAME@@, your Minister for Culture. "This is an opportunity to demonstrate that we really can manage things better than the Opposition. The show must go on! We can do it."
[validity] unrestricted
[effect] no public political meeting is considered complete without a DJ and at least three live bands

[Golgothastan]

I think you should provide a bit more description and context for non-UK users who won't be familiar with Labour Live. Your OP contains enough, but that isn't really translated into the issue text, and I can see a majority of this site's users wondering what it's all about.

For #3, the description could be "a snap election is called after every minor embarrassment for the Opposition".

[Australian rePublic]

Unless the govt. is funding it (and if it is, specify), whh care how profitable it is. Unless, of coarse, it's a big tourism draw card. If it is a tourism draw card, then it would only be a little unprofitable

[Trotterdam]

This draft was inspired by a recent event in Britain. Labour’s current leader Jeremy Corbyn has seemingly managed to attract significant support from among younger voters, and was applauded (with cries including “Oh Jezza, Oh!”, hence the working title used here…) when he made a speech at the Glastonbury Festival, so the decision was made to hold a combined pop concert & Labour political rally in London this year. Ticket sales for this were initially lower than anticipated, and cheaper tickets were then offered to party members (to the vocal annoyance of some of the people who had already paid full price), but the event still ran at a significant financial loss: The [presumably approximate] figures that I saw quoted were “£100 per head” and a total of £400’000…

Let me parse this. If I'm getting it right, the story goes like...:
1. Politician attends a festival and is welcomed enthusiastically.
2. Politician thinks this means it's a good idea to throw another festival.
3. This festival doesn't go over as well.
?

Though your issue doesn't really feature step 1.

Does anybody have a reasonably justified exchange rate between £ and Nationstates’s ‘SMU?

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=30493631#p30493631

In short, I estimated that 5 SMUs = 1 US dollar.

Looking up the exchange rate between the UK pound sterling and US dollar, that would probably mean 1 SMU = 0.15 pounds.

Mind you, real-life exchange rates fluctuate more frequently than my SMU estimate...

[Chan Island]

The follies around LabourLive might well be enough for a good issue, but this just doesn't have enough detail in it, especially for the non-UK users.

[Bears Armed]

Thank you all for your comments.
I agree that this needs considerably more work, but can't summon up enough enthusiasm for it and am therefore abandoning this idea.

If anybody else decides to tackle this subject then they're welcome to use any bits of my draft that they want.