Energy Utility Bosses Donate to the Tory Party
 

I see the Fat Cat Energy Supply bosses have donated large amounts of cash to the Tory Party funds. Is this an appeasement payment so that in the future we the plebs will have to pay ever increasing energy bills!!!!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...energy-5329935

YOU DO NOT GIVE AND NOT RECEIVE NOTHING me thinks... I smell a rat.

Re: Energy Utility Bosses Donate to the Tory Party
 

Quite. That may also help explain the Labour party's finances.

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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...speration.html

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There is nothing wrong with donations made to political parties as long as everything is legal and above board.

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Clarity is everything: Business makes jobs, pays employees, contributes to pensions, trade and taxes that fund the state expenditure whereas unions....

It's no surprise that business supports the party that is pro-business.

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.. can protect employees being exploited by unscrupulous and greedy employers

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But frequently exploit said employees for their own political ends.

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Who do you really think holds the power today: the employers or the employees (backed by the unions if they have one)?

<warning: possible "hyperbole" ahead/>

Employers, backed by government policies just have too much power. The employer/employee balance that we had (in varying degrees) is now way too far in favour of the employer. Without this balance, society is heading for a dark place. The ability of multi national companies who are invited to this country by fawning politicians, allowed to escape paying taxes and to then with no or little consequence relocate their UK business to India or China leaving their UK employees redundant.

Pretending that unions are still the bogey man just plays into the hands of the right wing press and ignores the real threat to our country and that is the growing disparity between the poor (however you may define them) and the wealthy. This is the elephant in the room and is being ignored. This is the real and present danger to our children's future. How many of our chidren will be able to buy their own home as their parents may have done, espcially in London? Answer: a lot less. It is not the hysterical non-stories about the scrounging poor or the tidal waves of fertile immigrants that are the real issue we should address today.

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Scroungers don't have to be poor and millions of immigrants have driven down the wages of the poorest whilst benefiting the richest. They have also required housing which is in short supply thereby helping to drive prices/rents up. They may not be the sole or biggest cause of the problems you cite but they don't help matters do they and to say so isn't hysterical.

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Where did the energy bosses money come from! out of their own pockets or from their hard pressed customers paying for their high energy bills.

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Where did the Unions' donation money come from?

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Where the donations came from not open to question but as long as its legal and above board then there ain't much you can do Richard.

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I wonder if anyone has had the knackers to donate to UKIP and be upfront as to why?

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I don't think anyone would be suprised if political party donors (from all sides) sometimes benefit in some way from their donations. It could be a gong, future business friendly policies, etc.

I guess you could see it as part of the lobbying process :)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sykes_(businessman)

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from the op's link

This is a non story, individuals can donate to who they like ,the other alternative for those against people donating to political parties is to stop it altogether and rely on funding from general taxation ,anyone fancy that ?

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Well they seem to claim for just about everything else on expenses.

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Well, if you don't want the endless arguments that the Tories are in the pockets of fat cats and Labour the pockets of the Unions, there is one solution: Public funding for political parties.

That way there can be no pandering for donations, no accusations of foul play, or sleaze etc, and would mean people can be confident that their elected lawmakers are actually working for them, not whoever donated the most to their party.

Of course, such an idea is never going to fly, because who wants a fair political system? Far easier to use a bad one to point the finger at whoever you don't vote for than to actually fix it.

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:clap::clap:

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Not from me, i have just signed the form the CWU sent out that asks if you want some of my subs paid to the union paid to Labour or not, i said NO use it on something else. I dont pay money to any political party

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I didn't say expenses I said general taxation in other words the parties are funded by grants from taxes

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I knew his Dad good bloke

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When the energy prices start going through the roof again as they surely will, would the Tory party mothers who will probably be in office again rein-in the energy companies who donated to their party.

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... and then there was this guy whose ID, for some odd reason, it seems Labour weren't too keen to reveal... :confused:

Quote:

Labour has received a huge donation from a multimillion-pound hedge fund manager whose identity the party tried to keep secret, The Independent can reveal. Martin Taylor has given Labour nearly £600,000 since 2012, making him the party’s fourth-largest donor, and has had at least one meeting with the Labour leader, Ed Miliband.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10124387.html

Same Old Labour - The party of hypocrisy...

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Don't let it all wind you up Osem. they're all as bad as each other.

Calm dwn. take a deep breath and vote UKIP.

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For once Gary l agree with you.

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And now we have a LibDem peer resigning over alleged dodgy donations:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31996192

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If its meant to be illegal why weren't people prosecuted over donations(£600,000+) made by David Abrahams via third parties? Apparently trade union Unite is paying the membership fees for some people to be members of the Labour party and therefore eligible to vote for prospective MPs. Wouldn't that also be 3rd party donations?