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Summary UK Political Party Funding Revision Notes
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Politicalfundraising events
Party funding 6/1/2023
collectingF
↑
recievingdonation
is
subscriptions
from member 2019 Election -
donations in &
How Cons-19 4 million
are
parties .
funded ? - loans from Labs
receiving
-
5 .
4 million
C
wealthy individuals Lib Dem-1 3 million
Grants from
I
.
the Electoral or banks Green -
145 , 000
Commision self-financing
from candidates SNP-25,000
why is party funding so contriversial ?
It is contriversial and economical to the there
as
although it
bring political gain party will
always be the
bigger parties like Labour of the conservatives who will
gain more funding they have more
as member
status. This is one of the two
and a
higher political things that keeps the
party system in place as
to be funded with more to
no one else is
-
likely money campaign , etc.
favours
major parties
·
Large donors
·
are unaccountable
·
Rick of reduction
reduction of
membership parties focus on donors
·
-
Alternative
funding /restrictions
How to change party funding
1 Impose restrictions on the size of individual donations to parties. This is broadly
the system used in the USA (though donors can grant funds to thousands of
individual candidates). To be effective, the cap would have to be relatively low.
las
2 Impose tight restrictions on how much parties are allowed to spend. This would
make large-scale fundraising futile.
!
3 Restrict donations to individuals, i.e. outlaw donations from businesses, pressure
groups and trade unions.
4 Replace all funding with state grants for parties, paid for out of general taxation.
5 Greater transparency of party funding a How are parties currently funded? Aim for 6 bullet points to explain the curren
system.
b Explain in your own words why parties should be state funded
9334 c Explain in your own words why parties should not be state funded
d Overall, do you think parties should be state funded? Explain why.
e What are the problems with the current funding system? Aim for 6 bullet poin
How
parties currently funded
are ? explain.
f How have recent events once again made party funding a more controversial i
-
·
most -
>
subscriptions
Y
in 1990s
most of Labour
funding came from tes paid by trade unions & other
affiliated
organisations -
>
Tony Blair tried to reduce
Neil Kinnrock John Smith &
, influence
of trade unious -
↳ conservatives
bankrolled ↓
were
by wealthy buisness interests
&
led them
Conservatives Labour-Lord Sainsbur Conservatives to
teel
Sir Paul Getty a Bemie Ecclestone
-
donations from wealthy
Stuart wheeler people
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