Party funding figures for the last quarter are out. Excluding public money, between October and December last year the Tories received £3,309,109 in donations, Labour £2,592,885 and the LibDems just £570,959. The three biggest donors were Unite, Unison and the GMB, who funnelled over £1.5 million of their gold to you know who. Things don’t change…
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
” Evans, dear boy, Evans “
Don’t knock it, stating the obvious can be a revolutionary act!
http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/2958-now-former-lib-dem-mayor-is-backing-diane-in-eastleigh
Glynn Davies-Dear worked as constituency caseworker for LibDem MP David Chidgey but has now ripped up his LibDem membership card and is calling on the people of Eastleigh to support UKIP candidate Diane James in the by-election on February 28.
Mr Davies-Dear has served for 20 years a Lib Dem borough councillor and 12 years as a county councillor.
Union many are raised by payments made by many and given to improve the living standard of many. When a rich man gives £1.5m he gives it to raise the living standard of himself, so its not for the greater good.
Only issue I have when union raise money from public servants is, most aren’t value for money so they give it to increase inefficiencies.
A jobless mother appeared on national TV today to defend herself after widespread outrage over her having the upkeep of her 11 children and a purpose-built six-bedroom home paid for by taxpayers.
Unemployed redhead Heather Frost, 37, of Churchdown, Gloucestershire, was on ITV’s Daybreak to insist she ‘didn’t beg’ for the £400,000 eco-home and was now ’50/50 whether I’m going to take it’.
Her daughter Angel, 16, was also on the show to mount a defence of her mother after MailOnline revealed yesterday that the family had the means to keep a horse called Annie, bought last year.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281172/Mother-11-having-400k-taxpayer-funded-house-built-says-in.html#ixzz2LRdckaoM
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You couldn’t make it up, only in the UK
How many ‘husbands’ did this woman have? And WTF are they all now?
They will be food self-sufficient, owning that horse.
No need for Tescos.
Just think of the number of burgers it will make.
“the Tories received £3,309,109 in donations” so where did that lot come from, the usual in money terms then the Cons should walk into power
The union leaders selected Ed, the union members paid for Ed.
If Cameron wasn’t so spineless, Miliband would be a joke. As it is, in a couple of years, he’ll be a bought-and-paid-for Prime Minister.
Cameron was selected and paid for by few rich men.
Proveable fact or lefty jank?
Just count the number of men he called in for supper at no. 10 and money.
Yes, like you I was sat outside the door watching them come and go.
Don’t get much for your money these days.
Gideon’s advisers?
Once known as ‘teenage scribblers’?
Nothing to see here
Need to ban non-voters from contributing to political parties.
http://bit.ly/ZefuP6
There should be a law as in Australia mate, where a person is registered to vote they have to vote, plus you could have spot checks on those who register for postal votes
“The three biggest doners”
Those are some expensive kebabs
That’s socialist education for you.
Prescott took delivery.
“doners” – which illiterate cvnt is supposed to be in charge today?
+1
I’ll send him a voucher it includes the one way air fare to Switzerland.
“Their gold”?
Some of that old Union Modernisation Fund taxpayer cash finding its way back to Labour.
Who on earth is still donating to the Liberal Democrats? What could they possibly hope to gain by it?
A Lordship?
The word ‘idle’ is superfluous when talking about public sector employees (not ‘workers’).
EU institutions and p3d0′s ?
Hmmm, one party takes money from people who want better pay / jobs… the other party takes money from people who want to lower pay / cut jobs.
Things don’t change.
1.5 million pounds worth of union members subs, but how much went on the two union bosses salaries and pensions. I would hazard a guess of around 250,000 pounds for salaries, pensions and perks. That’s just the start.
Comrades, brothers, do you not think you are being stung?
I haven’t been a union member for several years now. Wild horses couldn’t drag me back. They stab us working class white English in the back, and they’re sod all use when you actually need the bastards.
Several hundred thousand ex-union members would seem to agree with you. I tore my card up in 1982 – and gave myself a 170 quid tax free annual pay rise in the process, which is much more than the union ‘negotiators’ ever got for me.
It is such a shame that union members today seem to be too thick to realise that they funding a very luxurious lifestyle for their leaders. You would think that so called ‘educated’ teachers would be bright enough to suss this out for themselves.
Wunoshun
Ed Miliband dances to the tune of the union barons.
doners? Messrs Staines and Cole clearly enjoy their kebabs but this is taking it too far.
Time to impose a £100k cap on political donations…
Political parties should have jusst one source of income: subs from ordinary members.
… and far less than 100k per member per annum.
Hi Guido.
Have you received you orders for the day, from The Gimp Gove office yet.
PS Pound in Free Fall !!!!!
Correction. The Spelling neo nuts will be foaming
Hi Guido.
Have you received your orders for the day, from The Gimp Gove office Spads yet.
PS Pound in Free Fall !!!!!
Bollocks to his Spads – it’s his husband you should be frightened of
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281373/He-belted-school-says-wifes-boss-confesses-best-Education-Minister-years-Im-Mr-Blurt-PM.html
Anyone else think that he looks better without the beard?
I’m a total c-unt, aren’t I?
How much did you donate to Dave and Co Guido….LOL
Why begrudge the LibDems receiving around 17.5% of the Tories’ donations? After all, had there been state funding they would have received an amount proportionate to each party’s vote share in the last general election: 65.5% of that of their coalition partners…..so rather more than £571,000.
Afghan hounds do not seem to have much fight in them.
We definitely need more QE. The currency is so debauched that a few more hundred billion won’t matter. Anyway I’ll be fucking off soon to spend more time with my pension(already converted into euros!)
Vote UKIP.
Vote LibLabCon.
I’m fed up of living in a multi-culti shithole like London. I’m thinking of moving north to get away from it. Somewhere nice like Bradford or Blackburn.
I’d only recommend if you can time travel to the 1950s as well.
Silly boy! If he could time travel to the 1950s he would not be needing to get out of London. Used to be a lovely place to live back then.
How much debt are the Labour Party in now.
Stop all donations Make the parties rely on individual membership subscriptions. Then we might see the country run properly.
PAH! chump change you chumps.