The Funding of UK political parties
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- Created on: 08-10-18 17:45
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- The Funding of UK political parties
- Methods of funding
- Collecting various membership fees
- Holding fundraising events
- Donations from individuals or organisations
- Self-financing candidates
- Grants from the Electoral Commission
- Controversy of party funding
- Larger parties are at a huge advantage
- Corruption caused by reliance on donations
- Donors may seek political return from their investment
- Regulation of party finances
- The Electoral Commission monitors and regulates party funding
- The Conservatives main income source is from wealthy donors
- Labour receives large funds from the trade union movement
- Alternative funding structures & restrictions
- Impose restrictions on individual donations to bodies
- Impose tight spending restrictions
- Restrict types of donations
- Replace funding with state grants
- Short Money
- Bias towards larger parties
- Distributed to opposition parties to fund parliamentary work
- Distributed on how many seats and votes parties won at previous election
- Should the state fund political parties?
- Arguments infavour
- Ends corruption of donations
- Reduce advantage of larger parties
- Improve democracy, ensuring wider participation
- Arguments against
- Difficult to distribute funding
- Parties may lose independence
- State funding may lead to excessive party regulation
- Arguments infavour
- Methods of funding
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