Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
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.
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?
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.
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?
ReplyDeleteMembership 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.
ReplyDeleteNo, there should be no individual donations, only those from wider civil society as such.
What would stop me creating the "I love party x" group, and giving money that way?
ReplyDeleteThe law, as envisaged here.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm not part of "wider civil society" unless I join a membership organisation? What an impoverished understanding of society that suggests.
ReplyDeleteThe very opposite.
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