Monday, 20 October 2008

Party Funding

Second Reading today. It'll do no good, and much harm.

Instead, all party funding should have to be by resolution of membership organisations, thereby requiring links to wider civil society.
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous20 October 2008 at 15:00

    So I wouldn't be allowed to give a party money unless I joined another membership organisation? I couldn't even give the party money through joining the party - a membership organisation itself?

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  2. David Lindsay20 October 2008 at 15:54

    Membership subscriptions (such as they are - if you pay by cheque, then you cost a party about one and a half times as much as you write out) are one thing. Donations are quite another.

    No, there should be no individual donations, only those from wider civil society as such.

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  3. Anonymous20 October 2008 at 16:18

    What would stop me creating the "I love party x" group, and giving money that way?

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  4. David Lindsay20 October 2008 at 16:20

    The law, as envisaged here.

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  5. Anonymous20 October 2008 at 16:47

    So I'm not part of "wider civil society" unless I join a membership organisation? What an impoverished understanding of society that suggests.

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  6. David Lindsay20 October 2008 at 16:56

    The very opposite.

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