George Monbiot5d ago
Why should any political donations other than a standard annual party membership fee (say £25) be permitted? All other options allow wealthy people disproportionate political influence.
Show threadDan Hatton5d ago

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

I sympathise with the sentiment, but: this would give a largeish party of 100000 members a budget of £2.5 million per year. Let's say in a typical year there are public elections of some variety in areas containing 10 million households. I think a political party can reasonably expect to be allowed to deliver an election-address leaflet to every household. That gives them 25p per leaflet to get them printed. I'm not convinced that's feasible.

Show threadGeorge Monbiot5d ago
The state matches the fees on a fixed multiple. Adequate funding on a level playing field.
Show threadDan Hatton

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Yep, that sounds like a decent plan.

Now what to we do about donations in kind via big media proprietors publishing partisan editorial content for free?

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Show threadReg5d ago

@only_ohm

That's a more difficult problem to fix, but conveniently many of our media moguls are tax exiles so there might be options to explore.

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