Is it right to allow donations from wealthy individuals to UK political parties? Should it be made against the law?
Is it right to allow donations from wealthy individuals to UK political parties? Should it be made against the law?
I'd be happy to see a limit on election spending, or all donations go into a pot and get divided out, although how that would effect small and new parties I'm not sure?
What is Fractal Reserve Banking?
Yes, an MP is her only job. In other words, she's a career politician.
The problem is Fractal Reserve Banking, creating boom-and-bust cycles.
Don't hate the player, hate the game!
Ms Rayner was very vocal yesterday, too be honest donations of that amount should be banned. She stated last year that being an MP should be your only job, This is donations she has received this year, two are from property companies and she is the Housing Minister. It’s not only her, they are all still receiving money.
No it's not it's buying votes, but nothing will ever change because every party benefits from funding from large donors. and none of them are going to bite the hands that feed. And donors are going to keep getting rewarded for doing so see for example Andy Burnham accepting a donation from Lord Sainsbury and a few months later announcing a policy where a huge chunk of unemployed youths are going to work for free in Sainsbury's stores, and that's not even the worst example of political corruption compared to the things the last tory government did.
We need massive reforms and actual enforcement of the rules that are already in place that would make behaviour like this cease to exist.
Well, then stop Corporations donating to Political Parties; to create a level playing-field.
In the midst of the hyperbole over the money Farage got, lest we forget the amount of spondulicks the main parties receive from Microsoft, Pfizer, etc.
Even Union donations should be banned. They seek to buy elections, too.
Yes, they should and they are, Reform are skating on very thin ice accepting their two multimillion pound donations.
I also think that there should be a much lower limit on the amount of money an individual can donate and that there should be a cap on election spending.
But one thing thats interesting is all the money seems to be going to social media campaigns, I don't have social media apart from here and I see much less advertising. We get about a third of the amount of bumf through the door as we did even 5 years ago.
It has to be against the law, otherwise democracy will disappear into a feud between the world's rich [if there is a world left, thanks to bad political decisions].
