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About Contact Links Caveat The DR Manifesto...Manifesto I'm not standing for office. I'd be a shite politician, partly because I'm unpleasantly honest and partly because I hate wearing suits... If I wasn't, this is what I'd be campaigning on... (26 Feb 2007) 'Please let my Mother live!'...Environment There's only one way to ensure our survival as a species - live sustainably. It's easy! Nuclear Idiocy (15 January 2007) Sustainability (16 October 2006) Global Warming (15 October 2006) Housing Shortage (15 October 2006) Cycle Paths (11 October 2006) Tourism (10 October 2006) Main Topics...Make Drugs Legal Prohibition doesn't work, duh! It gives too much money to organised crime... Updated: Letter to the Telegraph 'Alcohol and Tobacco are the gateway drugs - if there is such a thing...' (Upd: 11 Mar 2006) Errant Fathers How can fathers be expected to 'take responsibility' for their kids when the law always presumes in favour of the mother? I got a reply - and here's my reply to that Welfare and Compensation Culture = No Legal Responsibility (Upd: 11 Mar 2007) A New Political System A solution for: Party Funding, Reform of The House Of Lords, and it incidentally makes the whole voting process far more democratic... (Upd: 25 Feb 2007) Principles My principles of government. (Upd: 25 Feb 2007) Road Pricing Tony Blair and the entire Labour Government are cretins... Road pricing has to be the most hare-brained scheme ever - devised by the evil cretinous muppets from hell - the Politicians... (19 Feb 2007) Old People Old folks have no respect in our culture. That is so wrong!... (18 Feb 2007) Poverty How do we define poverty? How do we reduce it? Well, not taxing the poor would help... (18 Feb 2007) Europe The EU is a criminal organisation intent on conquest... (Upd: 30 January 2007) Cash for Honours Why would anyone give money to a political party?.. (16 January 2006) Social Security A fresh approach to the problem of how to provide social security... (15 January 2006) David Cameron David Cameron and the Conservative Party... (12 December 2006) Random Rants Some random musings... (12 November 2006) Prisons If prisoners are 'paying their debt to society' - why is is so damn expensive to keep them? (21 October 2006) Tax Taxes kill businesses and people. (16 October 2006) Free Speech Some peoples brains work overtime trying to figure out how to turn opinions into insults... (14 October 2006) Health Why are tax-payers footing the bill for sex-change operations and IVF? (13 October 2006) Law British law is stupidly complex and inefficient. You'd never design a system like that... (13 October 2006) Education Educators need to aim higher, and politicians need to butt-out. (12 October 2006) Security It was a no-brainer that invading Iraq with Bush would cause more grievances than it solved. When has starting a war ever brought peace? (8 October 2006) |
Cash For Honours & Funding Politics16 Jan 2007 With all the ongoing furore over the fact that, as usual, political parties are selling honours for cash, I feel the need to bestow my own deep insights into the matters of political funding... There's no doubt that both the Labour & Conservative parties need cash... Being in debt for £10s of millions from incompetent mis-management and profligate spending is difficult to recover from... Political parties have always been funded by people seeking to buy influence. In some circumstances that can be a good thing. Not many though... There are 3 reasons why anyone would give money to a political party:
The first two options probably go hand in hand a bit. I wouldn't give money unless I thought there was something in it for me - would you? The last one, to be fair, probably doesn't apply to many folk in the Lords. Another irony about this affair is that the donors probably never expected honours, Blair probably wanted to exercise his god-like magnanimity to show off to them... Funding Politics...When people talk about 'funding politics' what they usually mean is 'funding for advertising'. The first place to start when analysing any problem is to ask... What problem are we trying to solve?The question most people seem to be asking is: 'How do you fund political parties?' Is this the right question to be asking? I think not... Perhaps these for a start:
Perhaps we need to review the whole system of politics in this country? After all, politics is not serving the sheeple. Even the dimmest, with the smallest imaginations of how much better things could be, seem pretty disappointed with them at the moment... It has to be noted that possibly the biggest problem with government today is the utterly useless civil-service who do a terrible job, and are about as good with our money as a drunken sheikh in a casino... A Proper Solution needs a page of it's own...Click here to read my Alternative Political System design.
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