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Ukip Donor Arron Banks Could Have Better Spent His £900,000 On These 7 Things Instead

7 Things Ukip's New Donor Could Have Better Spent His £900,000 On
Asa Bennett
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BRISTOL, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 01: Leader of Ukip Nigel Farage (L) holds a press conference with the party's new donor Arron Banks on October 1, 2014 in Bristol, England. Former Tory donor, businessman Arron Banks has pledged to give Ukip a £1,000,000 GBP donation. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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Ukip's new backer, former Tory party donor Arron Banks, pledged yesterday to give the party a massive £1 million donation, in a huge boost for its coffers ahead of next year's election.

Banks, who has previously given tens of thousands of pounds to the Tories, said the donation was ten times bigger than originally planned as he had been enraged after Commons Leader William Hague mocked him as "nobody".

Speaking at a press conference in Bristol, the insurance guru told reporters that he hoped his donation would mean that "Mr Hague will know who I am".

Given Banks seemingly threw Ukip an extra £900,000 just to spite Hague, could there have been better ways of spending it? Here are 7 ideas.

7 things Arron Banks could spend £900k rather than to spite William Hague
Banks' £900k could protect 27 million people from malaria(01 of07)
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£900,000 could pay to provide 13.5 million anti-malarial nets in Africa, which would protect 27 million people. (credit:Pascal Deloche via Getty Images )
It could help food banks cope in one go...(02 of07)
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The Trussell Trust, which manages more than 300 food banks throughout Britain, last year launched an appeal for £1 million in donations to help it cope with the rush on food banks after Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms came into effect. (credit:Jeff J Mitchell via Getty Images)
It could pay 40 nurses for a year...(03 of07)
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(Pay Scale)
Or 40 teachers...(04 of07)
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(Department For Education)
He could pay down a bit of Britain's debt (05 of07)
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£900,000 would pay down a bit of Britain's £1,432 billion debt pile, but a tiny fraction - at just 1/1591th. (credit:Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Banks could get this 51-acre private island(06 of07)
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The Modi Island is located in the Ionian Sea, to the west of Greece, and costs just under £1 million.
And finally...(07 of07)
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Banks said he hoped his £900,000 extra to Ukip would mean Hague would finally "know who I am". He could instead follow the Commons leader around for over a month in a helicopter using a megaphone to shout: "I am Arron Banks."(£900,000 would get just over 800 hours (33 days and 8 hours) in a small single-engine helicopter such as a Robinson R44, according to the PrivateFly service.)
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