David Mills For Party Treasurer!
Where's the cash going to come from now the gongs for sale racket is out into the open? who's going to bung Labour now? I suppose it's fitting that Tony bankrupts the party financially as well as morally. The unions aren't going to stump up, the members can't do it and now the big donor policy has gone down in flames. Perhaps they'll have no choice other than to call in Mr Jowell.
There's always been a shadow over the Blair's finances, especially in the property market and one wonders at how he's paying for his four million quid retirement home,but at heart people didn't believe Blair was corrupt. Many people are shocked at the secret funds and his clear involvement. There are some important questions:
Which account did the money go to and who were the signatories?
If these are true loans, has any repayment been made, planned or requested?
It all sounds rather Nixonian, perhaps we'll soon discover the Comittee to Re-Elect the Premier.
In the meantime we'll be having a panic in Number Ten as they try to find the cash to keep the ship afloat and Gordon will be wondering what'll be in the kitty for his General Election campaign...
From my blog :One proposed
From my blog :
One proposed solution is the state funding of political parties which, in my mind, brings about many potential problems, two of which I list below :
1. Although tax revenues do already fund the provision of arms and components to countries who we may feel oppress those who the government claim to protect, signing up to fund a political party has the potential to make the taxpayer a direct sponsor of state terrorism.
2. The funding of a political party from taxpayers money is discriminatory.
Pity the poor millionaires who are excluded from giving substantial donations or loans to the political party of their choice by the new regulations and cannot make payment via the tax they owe because they contribute so little through tax avoidance schemes, salting their money away offshore and into the pockets of loved ones or sometimes into the pockets of their own grubby lightweight blazers that have hung, unused, on the same coathanger for years somewhere in secure closets in the Carribbean.
Is this not the perfect end,
Is this not the perfect end, he has Cameron to pass the torch 'compassionate conservatism' he has promoted, and he can nobble his neighbour at the same time?
Double Bubble, not trouble if you ask me
I'm waiting for them to
I'm waiting for them to announce that party funding will be supplimented with the national lottery
Good point. Maybe there'll
Good point. Maybe there'll soon be a Lord ERNIE of Blackpool?
Martin
The power enquiry got it
The power enquiry got it right imo.
[19]Donations from individuals to parties should be capped at £10,000
[20] State funding to support local activity by political parties to be introduced based on [..] individual voter vouchers. [...] at a general election a voter wil be able to tick a box allocating £3 donation per year from public funds to a party of his or her choice
Simple. But these muppets only listen when the shit hits the fan, and they're running out of umbrellas.
not that simple Daniel_Drat
not that simple Daniel_Drat - how many GBP10,000 donations would be forthcoming for a party that traditionally draws its votes from the relatively disadvantaged? a lottery is perhaps not that daft but how can 'loans' be kept secret from the party treasurer?