Mr Celine
Senior Member
No, they come from the political levy which members have to opt in to. In Unison it's 5% on top of the normal sub.
Reform, and the death of the Tory Party
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No, they come from the political levy which members have to opt in to. In Unison it's 5% on top of the normal sub.
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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I believe it is, or at least was, possible to opt out of the Political Levey.
Edit: oops, I see Mr Celine has more uptodate and complete info.
AuroraSaab
Pharaoh
Looks like the opt in/out it was introduced long after I'd joined my various unions. Thanks for the clarification. Presumably the recipients of the funds, eg which parties or particular MPs, are decided by committee.
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
- Location
- South Tyneside
It would appear the opt-in / opt-out has varied over time, from 1913 until now, with most recent change being in 2016. Un-surprisingly, perhaps, it was typically Conservative Governments which adopted opt-out as the default, and, Labour Governments who opted for opt-in as the default.
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
When the far right tries to weaponise just being nice to other humans...
Stevo 666
Veteran
I don't know whether other parties have, maybe you can clarify on what basis you say that.
But let me rephrase the question: you see an issue/have a concern here. How would you deal with it? If certain parties are not doing what you want in this area, what sort of rule changes would you implement to deal with it if you were in charge?
icowden
Pharaoh
Ban party donations from companies. Anyone with an NI number and who is up to date with their taxes can donate say up to £5k per year max.
Or just ban political party donations all together.
Psamathe
Guru
I agree, particlarly as companies don't get a vote in electing our politicians.
Add who is a UK resident. You can be resident overseas and still have an NI number and still be up-to-date with your (UK) taxes.
The parties don't need the vast sums they seem to be thinking they need. Most elections are in a locality to elect representatives for the constituency (local). Yet Party leaders seem to regard themselves as rock stars needing a tour bus, appearances before large crowds, support teams to control the agenda all of which has little to do with who a constituency selects to represent their locality.
A Party can set Party policy and their local constituency candidate can present that policy to the constituents - don't need a campaign buss for a Party leader to attend with lots of razzmatazz and at significant cost. Might boost the egos of those party leaders ("Look at how important I am ...") but serves little purpose. Maybe in part a product as party leaders have taken ever more power and treated our local representatives as lobby fodder to do the bidding of the party leader rather than their job of representing their constituents.
All uphill
Slow and steady
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
It's just full-on racist 🐂💩
Rusty Nails
Country Member
And he seemed such a nice bloke when he blamed his Gorton and Denton loss on voter fraud.
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
I wonder why Mrs Tice married the multimillionnaire tax-avoiding-on-millions-of-pounds-profit Mr Tice, and retweeted this. Such patriots, anyway.
TailWindHome
Senior Member
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briantrumpet
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BBC curiously mute about the £600k aggressive tax avoidance by proud patriot Richard Tice. They're probably saving the slot for something about Angela Rayner.
