Further to Tim Carpenter's comments on "vested interests" and state funding of political parties, Raedwald has some very interesting observations here and here on the subject of the plans of our new coalition government to implement such funding.
I quote: “Only parties that returned MPs, and that returned MPs who take their seats, are eligible. That rules out any funding for UKIP (917,832 votes), the BNP (563,743 votes) and Sinn Fein (171,942 votes) but guarantees funding for the Greens (285,616 votes) and the Alliance Party (42,762 votes).”
And: “...although the coalition won only 59.1% of total votes cast in the general election between them, their rules will give them 70% of the State Party funding pot they are creating. Labour will get 25%.”
If that turns out to be the case, it sounds like legalised robbery to me.
Raedwald puts it rather more eloquently. “It stinks like rotten mackerel. It's a lousy, corrupt, venal subversion of tax funds for crooked political ends. It's anti-democratic, it's a naked and avaricious grasp for power at a time when the old parties are coming to their natural ends, with a combined membership of less than 1% of the electorate they're now thieving our taxes to keep their cosy private clubs solvent. It's a foul and filthy pillage of public money for private gain.”
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As Party Treasurer- it is just vested interest. We still have to pay the same £500 deposit to play parliamentary roulette, pay the registration fees to the Electoral commission etc etc
It stinks
Cost of the coalition,LibDem's lose £2 million state funding.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7132497.ece
Thay no longer qualify for the state funding for opposition parties.
Thanks, fraser.
I like the penultimate paragraph of the article: "Mr Clegg’s advisers are seeking to negotiate the rules so that the party would continue to receive some money, to reflect its position as the junior coalition partner. The party hopes that an arrangement in Scotland which lets the smaller of two coalition parties receive payments could be applied at Westminster.”"
There are no end of uses that politicians can find for tax-payers' money.
Yes what a joke.
The LibDem's are playing a dangerous game with the Torie's if this goe's belly up for them in the next couple of years theyr'e fucked ha haa!Somthing stinks about all this anyway
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