Online Questions & Answers with Hayden Phillips on party funding

Scenario statistics

Posted by dominicdm on October 30th 2006

Having reviewed the websie forum I thought it would be interesting to have the statisitcs for each of the 4 scenarios' outlined in the interim review.

By this I mean how many posts or posters were in favour of the 4 scenario's put forward.

I appreciate the chance to give feedback and I would be most interested to know the overall balance of views thus far. I would be concerend if the whole report did not hold any reflection of the strenght of feeling as well as the breadth of debate.

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My view is that there is

Posted by dominicdm on 30/10/2006 - 14:57

My view is that there is little wrong with the current system that an independent review body could not fix. The government did away with a parliamentary regulator, Elizabeth Filkin as I remember, who was doing a good job of policing parliamentarians.

This kind of approach would allow Labour to continue to receive union funding and Tories / Lib Dems their funding too, without further taxation.

The current system is also not bad in comparison with other democracies. The current investigations prove that it works, not that it is a fiddle. Cheaters are being caught.

From many people I have spoken too there is no appetite for increasing public funds from where they are today.

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The forum pre-dated setting

Posted by Sir Hayden Phillips on 30/10/2006 - 14:49

The forum pre-dated setting out the four scenarios. But I want to make it clear that those scenarios were not options from which to choose but a way of illustrating the issues involved. The point of publishing the interim assessment, and of this webchat, is to get peoples views on these issues. What are yours?