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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
It's a bit of a stretch to pretend that advertising outside Northern Ireland is irrelevant for an NI-only political party. It's unprecedented, unusual and the source of the funding is opaque.
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It’s no more relevant than Leanne Wood and Nicola Sturgeon appearing in UK-wide debates during the referendum campaign, which they both did, on the basis that a single decision taken by the entire UK would affect their own jurisdictions.
I totally understand where you’re coming from - you want to cry foul because the political funding rules seem to have allowed nationwide campaigning by an organisation regulated by a process that only anticipated them operating within a certain legal jurisdiction. That, however, is because those rules were designed on the assumption that they were regulating election spending. This was not an election.
If they found and exploited a weakness in the rules, then boo flipping hoo …