The trade unions should identify ten "dream" policies and ten "nightmare" policies, with ten per cent funding to any candidate (regardless of party, if any) for subscription to each of the former, minus ten per cent for failure to rule out each of the latter.
The unions and others should also fund the development and delivery of a qualification for "non-graduates" with life and work experience who aspire to become MPs.
If Harriet Harman really wants to do something, then she should get Jack Dromey (tipped for Ken Purchase's safe seat, by the way) to look into these possibilities. Seriously.
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Ten per cent of what?
ReplyDeletePermissable election expenses.
ReplyDeleteOh, I see. So if I wanted to get a bunch of money from the unions, I could just stand as an independent, tell the unions I supported their ten dream policies, and collect the cash?
ReplyDeleteWell, if you expected their cash again, then you'd have to have voted accordingly in the preceeding Parliament.
ReplyDeleteAnd, of course, it wouldn't just be telling the unions that you agreed. It would be telling the electorate.
Oh, dear. Someone has suggested to the New Labour trolls that there might be an alternative to their battering husband/battered wife relationship with the unions and all their lovely money.
"Well, if you expected their cash again, then you'd have to have voted accordingly in the preceeding Parliament."
ReplyDeleteOh, I see, so this only applies to candidates who are already sitting MPs.
No, of course not.
ReplyDeleteGive it up, you silly little man. They may have told you at your Lenin High School and in your student Labour Club that the lower orders owed you an income for life as a "researcher" or whatever through union funding of New Labour.
But that wasn't true in principle, and even the practice of it cannot now last much longer. Of course, it should never have lasted anything like as long as it has.