📢 A recent Guardian investigation revealed that property developers are secretly funding political donations under the guise of “civic groups.” One such group, the West Midlands Breakfast Club, donated £130,000 to Labour — and it's now confirmed that this money came from developers with a vested interest in planning decisions.

 “A secretive group that donated £130,000 to Labour and claimed to be ‘merely a platform for people’ is in fact funded by property developers.”
— The Guardian, 21 Dec 2024

 This is not just political influence. It’s developer lobbying dressed as democracy — and it’s happening while we face a worsening housing crisis.

 🏙️ The very companies profiting from unaffordable housing, land speculation, and community displacement are bankrolling political parties. And unless we act, they will continue to shape planning rules behind closed doors.

 ❗ What This Means:

• These donations are legal under current loopholes.
• They undermine public trust in the planning process. 
• They give developers direct access to decision-makers while ordinary people are priced out of homes.

We are calling for a full suspension of developer donations to all political parties until the housing crisis is brought under control — defined as England’s house price to income affordability ratio returning to its 2001 level, before deregulation and land speculation accelerated. This must be independently monitored and verified.

 👉 If you agree this is unacceptable, please share this petition with five friends. We need mass public pressure to end this quiet corruption.

 📎 Source: Guardian article on developer donations to Labour via secretive ‘breakfast club’