[arista]

Fecking No Way
Bankrupt Labour
I ain't ever funding you.


Over My Dead Body you Punks



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-8800881.html

[joeysteele]

It has always been an option if funding from other sources is removed, there would need to be strong limits on election spending if this ever were to come about but it has been on the table as consideration by all parties at some time.

It would have to be for all parties if it ever came to any fruition,which I personally doubt it will for some time,if in fact it ever does.
So it will mean taxpayers funding all parties not just Labour.

It will need agreement of all parties and Parliament as a whole too so I cannot see it happening.
If however taxpayers don't want to be the ones funding political parties then we should not be moaning at Unions funding Labour and the extremely rich and big business funding the Conservatives.
We should perhaps be more grateful that is the case rather than condemn the funding from Unions for Labour and Big Business for the Conservatives.
Both of whom will expect some payback for that funding of those main parties obviously.

Neither is any better than the other as to that.

[billy123]

Labour cutting ties with the unions should be seen as a positive step forward for politics.

Any outside funding for political partys should be banned as these donors dont give funding out of the kindness of their hearts they do it with an expectation that in return their point of view or way of thinking will be represented in some form by the receiving party and that is not democracy, that is cash for questions at the very least and buying legislation at the worst.

Nobody should be able to buy political policy but that is what happens at the moment and is why the big corps are able to dictate to goverment rather than the other way round.
External funding for all political partys has to end it just breeds corruption.

Labour severing ties with their biggest funders because they are overstepping the mark is a brave and good move for politics in general and trying to spin it negatively is short sighted and not the brightest move.

They are right an alternative funding system is needed a system that doesnt leave any party feeling they have to please the few that fund them before doing what is the best for the country.

[Kizzy]

Hang on, how is this to be divided?
The supporters of the Conservatives earn considerably more than Labour supporters on average, would they fund the party they like?...
Odd concept.

[Mystic Mock]

Why should people fund these idiots? Maybe if they was good at their jobs then it should be considered, until then no way.

[MTVN]

If people don't want this to happen then they also shouldn't moan about parties getting big money from individual donors

[the truth]

I think this may be good move BUT IT MUST REMAIN A SMALL AMOUNT AND ONLY GO UP 2% A YEAR. or another option is private money but only to a fairly low limit. I don't want to see the trillion dollar negative campaigning we endlessly see stateside