Who'd have thought that a bill to constrain corporate donations to political parties in the UK contains many loopholes that would make it largely ineffective.... I wonder why that is?
Just more declaratory politics pretending to do something about the creeping corruption of our democracy but actually doing little to stop the political class sucking on the corporate tit (as it were).
Another policy area where the Greens are more robust than the mainstream!
@ChrisMayLA6 And fascism highly resembles selling out under the guise of hierarchy.
Fascism as a cognitive dissonance coping mechanism for perceived and or actual failure.
Labour's problem is that having ditched Corbyn's mass-membership funding model - actually passing much of that membership and fund-raising income over to the Green Party - and also losing input from the wider labour movement - Labour has nowhere to go other than big business.
I think the causality might be the other way round.... the big business advisors have pushed them towards this funding model?
Probably there were push-and-pull factors, true - but I do think the McSweeney faction, that clearly captured Starmer, did not trust the membership/democracy. Especially after they saw the members overwhelmingly supporting Corbyn, they vowed to take power inside Labour elsewhere - not realising that 'he who pays the piper...'
yes fair comment... a dialectic, then
@ChrisMayLA6 I used to largely pay for my own council campaign leaflets. The mechanics of which were a donation from my company to the party. Which didn't avoid income tax / corporation tax, but did save the national insurance that I'd have paid on a personal donation.
So the tax treatment of donations to political parties is a little inconsistent, particularly when you also look at inheritance tax.
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