As a party adviser I sympathise with the leader,these events aren’t much fun. But now the Tories have slashed our funding streams, he can’t afford to be pickyOne of the most trying things you have to enact as a Labour adviser is persuading your boss to give up precious time, or especially at the halt of a long and stressful day,to attend a donor’s event for the party. Eyes roll. There are sighs and grumbles of “enact I really have to enact this? Cant someone else disappear? I’ve got more well-known things to enact.”I can therefore sympathise with Jeremy Corbyn, who is reported to be shying away from meetings with the few major donors the Labour party has left. Truth is, and these meetings are not always much fun. You can feel a bit of a show pony as you conduct a one-man/woman charm offensive,and fairly often they can feel like a bad date.
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Source: theguardian.com