mj.scuba Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Yes I have, I would set up a tribunal headed by a Judge, all parties would make their representations and the tribunal would allocate funds as they judged appropriate. Political activists would be able to devote time and effort to their cause as they wished, but they would not be able to donate money. The amount of money from public funds would not be onerous and, as I stated earlier would clean up politics at a stroke. So now we have Judges effectively deciding the outcome of elections, since they will determine the budget and amount of media exposure each party gets. Even better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xenia Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 The current system is manifestly corrupt, It cannot be otherwise, it does not make sense for a trade union or a capitalist to donate huge amounts of money to a political party without wishing to influence it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Excellent, you've just signed taxpayer cheques for the BNP, SNP, British Freedom Party, Respect, Greens, Communists, Libertarians, English Democrats, The Christian Party, Socialists Workers Party, and a whole load of other minority parties. Parties would only get funding if they win seats. To allow for smaller parties and for the bigger parties to raise a ceratin portion of their funding, donations would be strictly monitored and capped at say £5k. No more unions pulling the strings, no more Lord Ashcrofts. Sounds good to me. The extreme parties you list would only win seats if we switched to PR and nobody is suggesting we do that. Don't mix the two things up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grafikhaus74 Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Can't be bothered looking through every post on here, but I see it's degenerated into the usual SF slag-fest. This is exactly how the politicians get away with it. Cruddas, Milliband accepting hospitality from the owner of Hull City - they're all at it. And as for the people saying this is an excuse to fund politicians from the public purse, why? Wherever the money comes from, politicians are a naturally bent breed and they get away with it because nobody votes for a party, but votes against the other lot. And our media have got the cheek to suggest that the recent Russian election was fixed. Yeah, some of our polling stations closed early? And the well known scam of postal votes amongst some of our community. Wise up and don't vote for any of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xenia Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Can't be bothered looking through every post on here, but I see it's degenerated into the usual SF slag-fest. This is exactly how the politicians get away with it. Cruddas, Milliband accepting hospitality from the owner of Hull City - they're all at it. And as for the people saying this is an excuse to fund politicians from the public purse, why? Wherever the money comes from, politicians are a naturally bent breed and they get away with it because nobody votes for a party, but votes against the other lot. And our media have got the cheek to suggest that the recent Russian election was fixed. Yeah, some of our polling stations closed early? And the well known scam of postal votes amongst some of our community. Wise up and don't vote for any of them. No, we seem to have a genuine debate, publicly funded or not, the case for public funding has been oultined, we await the alternative proposals as to how this disgrace can be addressed. Re the Crudass debacle, it is unlikely that any monies raised by this man would have passed tory central office scrutiny. None the less it shows the seamy side of tory politics as did the numerous similar incidents show labour in a bad light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Apart from the fact we are constantly being told that there is no money to pay for libraries, school sports, crossing patrols etc What will need to be cut in order to divert money to political parties and how much will they need? They could cut corruption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Excellent, you've just signed taxpayer cheques for the BNP, SNP, British Freedom Party, Respect, Greens, Communists, Libertarians, English Democrats, The Christian Party, Socialists Workers Party, and a whole load of other minority parties. That is the main problem with publicly funded political parties, who decides which parties to fund & what are the criteria. Maybe there could be a cut off based on number of votes in the last election? I think we could find a reasonable solution that works out much better than the current situation of politicians selling laws & lucrative government contracts to the highest bribe. Just because a party is funded doesn't mean that you have to vote for them, I wouldn't have a problem with any of those parties being funded, even though most of them are even more repugnant than the main parties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Cameron should have just sold peerages like LABOUR did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Cameron should have just sold peerages like LABOUR did. You must have forgotten all the other things they sold too, they're both as bad as each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 You must have forgotten all the other things they sold too, they're both as bad as each other. Gold reserves, industry, our pride to name a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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