Monday 3 December 2007
Party Funding Talks Resumed
Why is it being done like this at all? I'm not necessarily saying that it shouldn't be, but why is it being? Why isn't the governing party simply legislating its rivals out of existence by reference to their sources of funding, and why didn't the then governing party do precisely that (as it could have done very easily indeed) after winning the 1987 Election of a specific commitment to do so? Surely not because the parties are not now, and were not then, really rivals but all, but rather all members of the same club from which the electorate at large is excluded? The very idea!
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No, I think it's because while all parties have their differences, and would obviously like to stay in/win power, they recognise that it would be an abuse of democracy to legislate their rivals out of existence.
ReplyDeleteLife must be so sweet in your world.
ReplyDeleteThe 1987 case really does warrant further investigation. Did Thatcher just decide that she'd rather face Neil Kinnock than David Owen?