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would anyone like a sour grape:rolleyes:
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Many union members don’t even realise that some of their money is being used to go to Labour. There was a news item about this on the Beeb a few days ago. In any case, this is just a blatant attempt by Labour to prevent the newcomer that is Reform UK from competing on the same footing as them. I think most people can see through this. ---------- Post added at 17:40 ---------- Previous post was at 17:36 ---------- Quote:
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We should limit political donations, including to Labour. And our politicians shouldn't take money that could influence them. Be that Starmer getting free clothes and concert tickets or Farage getting £5 million.
It's inviting corruption and, once again, it's not in our interests to have political parties or politicians owing something to those who have all the money. A crypto-billionaire is not nessaily concerned with how the other 99% of us live. |
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"We should limit political donations....." Limit the amount of a single donation or the total that can be donated to a party? "And our politicians shouldn't take money that could influence them." Well yes of course not, but how can you prove that a particular donation influenced them? "it's not in our interests to have political parties or politicians owing something to those who have all the money. A crypto-billionaire is not nessaily [sic] concerned with how the other 99% of us live." Absolutely true, but how to guard against this? I think that the current system of making all gifts to politicians or parties, disclosable, in a register that is freely available to all voters, is the fairest solution. Everyone is free to donate as much as they want to whoever they want, but it's open, everyone can find out about it. Let the electorate decide if they think that the politician was bought, and vote accordingly. |
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Maybe pay them more, but no 2nd jobs unless it's in the public sector (doctors need to practice to maintain their licence, for example), and no personal donations. Not even the fee for being on Have I Got News For You, that has to go to charity. Quote:
They're public servants; they should be paid by the public. If they don't like it and would rather be rich then being in charge of the laws that govern us isn't for them. I'll admit I don't care too much about the small-ticket items. Not going to lose sleep if someone wants to buy Farage a Wimbledon ticket or some whiskey, but getting millions of pounds is a joke; how is that not dodgy? |
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where was all the moaning about donations before reform scooped the jackpot
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Afraid Nige is going to have to give the foreign crypto cash back. He'll have to rely on his personal charm. Good luck. He'll have the amphibian vote, looks more like Kermit every day. Not like Andy, who is coolio :) |
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Ban the whole lot for me, as mentioned earlier it just opens up the doors for possible corruption, of which there's already enough of with the 2 or 3 'houses/offices' required and half the family being paid as 'staff'.
Oh, and if Andy 'the man' Burnham gets his way with the No,10 in Manchester idea, wait for the pleas for extra dosh due to the security and the overnight accommodation (which definitely won't be in a B&B or cheapo travel lodge) |
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I don't like retrospective laws. Ironically, it's actually a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. You can't prosecute someone for doing something that was understood to be legal at the time. It's obvious how a Government could abuse that. Reading around a bit, it seems there are exceptions if it's in the public interest. The fact that the Government had already announced it would be illegal after a backdated date means no one can claim they didn't know might also help them. And obviously Parliament can do whatever it wants in theory. But it seems that in those cases it needs to be something very urgent. The example given is that if they accidentally made a tax loophole that millions could take advantage of, they would immediately say they're passing legislation to fix it, and anyone abusing that loophole since that announcement would be retrospectively criminalised. I think Reform should be allowed to keep the money, and you only ban it from the date the bill passes. Too dodgy otherwise. |
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Bitcoin is completely legal to buy, sell, and hold in the United Kingdom. The government classifies it as personal property, but not as legal tender.
i was out for a meal on Tuesday, out of the 12 of us 3 were heavily into crypto 1 bitcoin and the others some different form of crypto,these were young people one mid 30s the other 2 early 20s,i could hardly get my head around the conversation,but the young uns seem to like it |
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Crypto is the future, as is Farage.
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I think it's become clear that Crypto isn't the future. It will be around for a while, but not as a key or useful part of society.
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The ones making the most (and easiest) profit are the manipulators at the top of the chain . . . oh, and criminals apparently. Is it fully regulated yet? Once it is, it will probably drift into the background . . like NFTs and Virtual Reality :D |
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I've got loads of it, don't expect to retire of the profits though, don't even bother checking on it |
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Can you still 'make' crypto with a good PC setup and 15 graphics cards?
Pretty sure if it was made legal tender the Government (any Government) wouldn't take kindly to people printing their own money :D edit: maybe that's what those data enters are for, it's not saving data it's making crypto :rofl: |
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NFTs and virtual reality are not going away. |
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I see we’re going for high quality debate and barbed comments again. It always happens when people are on dodgy ground with their arguments. I’ll leave you to bask in your reality for now.
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We'll be back to bartering with goats, chickens, and funny shaped vegetables before that happens :D
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Because of its volatility, it's never going to be used as a means to pay for things. You mentioned NFTs later in your comment; you're a few years behind on that. Those have entirely collapsed after people finally twigged that they were paying tens of thousands of dollars for a .jpg of an ape. |
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