Party Funding

by Chris | 27 Aug 2010 | No Comments

I don’t understand how this (or this) is supposedly a “cash for access” scandal:

The Tory fund-raising operation is inviting financial backers to join Team 2000, …

by Chris | 1 Mar 2010 | No Comments

He shouldn’t be. I don’t think that non-doms should be allowed to sit in Parliament, in either Chamber. Hence my pleasure when Zac Goldsmith give …

by Chris | 7 Jan 2010 | No Comments

A few Lib Dem bloggers have worked out the the “cost effectiveness” of the three main parties 2005 general election campaigns, by dividing the money …

by Chris | 27 May 2009 | No Comments

In the first quarter of 2009, money was still pouring in to political parties.

Conservatives got £4m
Labour got £2.8m
Lib Dems got £825k

Quite a larger amount for …

by Chris | 14 Dec 2008 | No Comments

What’s the point when no action is ever taken? Both Jack Straw and Peter Hain have been “cleared”, despite obviously breaking the rules by declaring …

by Chris | 9 Dec 2008 | No Comments

The credit crunch/recession/”downturn”, whatever you want to call it, is now directly affecting politics. More than 10% of the staff at CCHQ is to be …

by Chris | 8 Dec 2008 | No Comments

I wrote a post a week or so ago asking whether the Lib Dems would go bankrupt after Michael Brown was convicted of being a …

by Chris | 29 Nov 2008 | No Comments

Michael Brown, the Lib Dems largest donor ever, has been convicted of being a bogus businessman. He donated £2.4 million to them in 2005, but …

by Chris | 27 Nov 2008 | No Comments

For the first time in ten quarters – 2 and a half years or, to put it another way, since Gordon Brown became leader – …

by Chris | 20 Sep 2008 | No Comments

JK Rowling, millionairess author of the Harry Potter books, has given Gordon Brown his one piece of good news in weeks: she has donated £1 …