Tony L
Administrator
- not just PR but a serious effort to widen participation and reform political party funding…
How would you do this? Our two main parties each have a clear funding mechanism which goes right to the heart of their history and ideology; the Tories being the wealthy establishment elite, oligarchs, landowners, inherited wealth and titles, the Labour Party the political voice of the Trade Union Movement. They are what they are. Admittedly neither represent the vast majority of us who are in neither category, but it is hard to see how either would accept funding reform, or even could do so conceptually. Things are obviously far harder for all other contenders who have to survive via memberships, donations, crowd-funding etc.