Marion Slunsky
Kit YatesIf a company donates to the governing party then shouldn’t it be excluded from bidding for government contracts?
Isn’t that a clear conflict of interest?
Tyron Tachi@kityates in any other sphere that would be thought of as a bung ...
DutyBard@kityates
But if it were excluded from bidding, what would be the point of donating?
But if it were excluded from bidding, what would be the point of donating?
Phil Thane ✅@kityates Yes. But getting such a law passed would be tricky since whichever party is in power has a vested interest in the status quo.
Paul_K@kityates all party donations should be capped at a set amount and full transparency provided via public records that are easy to access. This government is going the way of the US, whoever pays the most wins and gets to starve, poison, pollute and steal from the populous.
Bruno Nicoletti@kityates Or lobbying for that matter.
H4Heights 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦@kityates Not if it’s the Tories… corruption is their life-blood.
Flaming June@kityates But instead it’s a major reason they do.
Phil Haigh@kityates indeed, that’s what should happen.
fotis saltaferis@kityates
and if they had a government contract shouldn't they be able to donate to any political party or the same amount for all the parties?
and if they had a government contract shouldn't they be able to donate to any political party or the same amount for all the parties?
Tyler Saunders@kityates then no one would be able to bid on any contract, ever.
All major corporations are donating massively to both parties; effectively betting on all of the horses.
Corporations are not people and should not have political speech. If they don't like it; they are free to move their business to another country.
But that's not the world we live in.
Scott Purdy@kityates Assuming the civil service contracting officer responsible for awarding the contract is doing their job professionally and following all the conflict of interest rules they have to abide by, the award decision should be insulated from this kind of influence. Congress has ways to direct work to a particular company, but even then, that means somebody higher up telling the CO to ignore rules about their duties. Not often, but people go to jail for that.
Vicmeldrew@kityates I think we all know its wrong. Question is where is the impetus to change things going to come from. Most people just don't seem to care.
Some of them, well you tell them someone's is getting a benefit yet has a tattoo, smokes or drinks and they go apoplectic!
They really don't seem to care that the rich are robbing us as long as someone they may know isn't getting something they aren't.
Waseem@kityates they should be excluded but in my country such people are the main contractors and there is minimal chance for anyone else to get the contract.
Don McKay 🍁@kityates In Canadian Federal Elections: Corporations, trade unions, associations and groups cannot make contributions. (This was put in place in 2007)
Matt@kityates a company has a duty to act in the interest of its shareholders.
The ONLY reason for a company to make a political donation is because the company directors expect a direct or indirect return in excess of the donation.
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The ONLY reason for a company to make a political donation is because the company directors expect a direct or indirect return in excess of the donation.
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@kityates I think there should be an "Office of Political Donations" which accepts donations, vets them to exclude non-qualifying donors, then hands over the anonymised money and reports amounts publicly.
Deals with undue influence completely.
Deals with undue influence completely.
Cliff Burton's Notes@kityates I would think the most charitable rejoinder to this would be that if any business is allowed to contribute it’s because it has a right to influence policy. If you remove this right from government contract sectors, they lose that right.
Dynomoose@kityates yes.@yes. Yes.
Melinda@kityates
We need a publically funded system to give Parties an equal amount of money for campaigns etc. Private donations need to be banned full stop. People are buying power and policy and that is morally illegal.
We need a publically funded system to give Parties an equal amount of money for campaigns etc. Private donations need to be banned full stop. People are buying power and policy and that is morally illegal.