Party Funding

Recent events have of course minded me to be nice about the Electoral Commission (which even sent me a get well soon email). And concern about the Ashcroft money is of course quite correct.

Let each MP have an annual tax-free allowance transferable to the political party or other campaigning organisation of his or her choice, conditional upon matching funding by resolution of a membership organisation. The name of that organisation would appear on the ballot paper in brackets after the party or other designation. There would be a ban on all other party funding, and on all party spending per year above 2400 times that allowance.