anti foreign donation laws to be introduced

[Notch7]

mostly as a result of Musk trying to influence British politics

 

[MNW67]

Something has to be done.

 

[noseall]

mostly as a result of Musk trying to influence British politics

Cheers Elon!

 

[JohnD]

Boris and his buddies did well out of Putin's money

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Boris even enobled a Russian donor into the Lords. Lord of Richmond upon Thames and Siberia.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/boris-the-lord-the-russian-spy-dispatches

Johnson and Gove claimed to know nothing about the Russian Spy warnings.

MI6 warned PM about Russian oligarch friend Evgeny Lebedev two years ago

The head of British intelligence reportedly held security concerns over Lord Lebedev for as long as a decade

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Vinty]

Maybe political parties should funded by the state rather than private individuals.
After all MPs are no longer privately funded.
Government of the people by the people, should be funded by the people, rather than the vested interests with large amounts of money.

 

[JohnD]

Better still, we could forbid them accepting kickbacks or sweeteners during, or for five years after, their term of office.

 

[motorbiking]

Maybe political parties should funded by the state rather than private individuals.
After all MPs are no longer privately funded.
Government of the people by the people, should be funded by the people, rather the vested interests with large amounts of money.

Good grief, more taxes being wasted

 

[Highway Man]

~Why do they need huge sums of money?

 

[MNW67]

Good grief, more taxes being wasted

But chicken feed really.

 

[Notch7]

Maybe political parties should funded by the state rather than private individuals

This may not be practical, but it has merit.

If you look at party donors, there have been more than a few which just switched from Conservative to Labour…..which just shows it’s simply about giving money in exchange for political influence.

We need the lobbying system to be changed.

And we certainly don’t need foreign money used to influence our govt…..Conservative party had a chairman who ran a concierge service in Moscow for Oligarchs

Good grief, more taxes being wasted

Yes I can’t ever see the taxpayer approving tax dollars for party campaigning

 

[Odds]

That'll put a crimp in Farage's plans to fund his quest to become PM.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Maybe political parties should funded by the state rather than private individuals.
After all MPs are no longer privately funded.
Government of the people by the people, should be funded by the people, rather than the vested interests with large amounts of money.

If a PPT is introduced (Political Party Tax), individuals/groups/organisations will still find ways to influence their party of choice.

 

[motorbiking]

It’s just a party funded one way trying to make it harder for a party funded a different way. The money will still get spent on the goal.

 

[blup]

Maybe political parties should funded by the state rather than private individuals.
After all MPs are no longer privately funded.
Government of the people by the people, should be funded by the people, rather than the vested interests with large amounts of money.

Maybe a hybrid with some state funding and regulated transparent private funding. Still haven’t worked out whether and if so how foreign money was behind leave campaigns