Have a guess where the majority of Tory Party funding comes from
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Just like most of Labour funding comes from the Unions. Political party in looking out for supporters shock.
linglong
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2011/02/are_hedge_fund_managers_the_to.html
I would like to think Mr Peston's article would shut the tories up over Labour's union funding but i suspect it wont becuase as you say both look for funding differently.
For me the state should provide money for both parties and do away with this out dated system its unhealthy for a small group to have such a hold over our elected politicians.
Exactly, and neither is good for impartiality, but this is my concern with politics is it often gets driven by minority groups rather than the population as a whole.
linglong
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Agreed Bruce sadly though it's in both parties interest to maintain the status quo and politics becomes ever more rotten.
The-Golden-Vision
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The Swiss have got it right. True democracy.
http://direct-democracy.geschichte-schweiz.ch/switzerlands-system-referendums.html
I'm generally more libertarian than that. Governments are generally great at providing law and order but I don't think they're so good at providing much else.
The-Golden-Vision
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We'll never find out mate. The chattering classes in London will see to that.
linglong
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100% agree with you there mate no argument from me and its a bloody shame becuase with first the banks going tats up then the expense's malarkey we had a once in a 100 year chance to utterly reform parliament and the ways its run,to be truly be "new politics" but no sadly the tories grabbed back the power they so desperately wanted back for the last 13 years,the libdems just wanted power.
And the sad thing is Labour would have done the same it is utterly depressing
The-Golden-Vision
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You nailed it with those words. That is all any party is interested in ultimately.
Heres a question:
If you could force a referendum on any matter you liked, what would it be?
Robert Jarvis
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Dave, sorry mate but that is utterly stupid to start a thread on that story. We all know where their funds come from just as labour get theirs from the unions. WE are not completely ignoramus you know.
davek
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Here's my point, though: are the Labour Party charged with setting conditions for the paying back by the unions of billions of pounds that they took off the population in the past three years? Clearly not. But the Tories are charged with forcing the banks to cough up a bit of pay back from all the pork barrel they've swallowed in the same time period. So isn't there a conflict of interests there when those administering tax regulations and policing the bonus culture in the financial sector are themselves in the pocket of the financial institutions? I think there is you know, and the recent con trick of Osborne's to make it look like the Banks have been hammered (a few hundred million quid when Labour were taking £3B+ off them last year) underlines why the connection between Tory party and these donators is important to appreciate.
tsubaki
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I think its a bit of a stretch to assume that the Labour Party is solely dependant on the union levy - a lot of their funding comes (or certainly under Blair came from) from the banks and the big four accountancy firms, and New Labour bent over backwards to help them when they were in office; both in terms of deregulation and (more importantly) putting massive amounts of work and vast wedges of cash their way. Certainly they did more to "help" the financial sector than they ever did to help the unions.
All that is happening now is that the Tories are being accused of exactly what Labour did, except they are if anything probably doing less than what Labour did to "help" the financial sector.
All that is happening now is that the Tories are being accused of exactly what Labour did, except they are if anything probably doing less than what Labour did to "help" the financial sector.
Excellent point, but it cannot be denied that the Labour party played ball with the Unions as an obedient puppy on more than one occasion.
The Tories, however, are definitely more prone to drastic policy decisions based on their relationship with the city of London in particular.
Once they came in, it was quite obvious the banks were off the hook completely.
Loved how the banks "welcomed" Osbournes announcement today and simultaneously paid out millions in bonuses.
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