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Originally Posted by Damien
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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I do get the reasoning behind your post, but the practicalities and unintended consequences are quite a problem.
"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.