Well, party funding is in the news again. Apparently, the leader of the House of Commons “has called for a permanent cap on the amount political parties are allowed to spend”. Hmmm. Good, I think. Or maybe not. At what point do you control things? Mandatory spending limits? Not very, well, liberal, is it? Except that, well, I’ve called for such limits before. Most certainly, they can’t be along the lines that “The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have proposed an upper limit of about £50,000″. So, if you have a huge fundraising drive, and manage to persuade everyone in the coutnry to give you, say £5, you still can’t spend it all? What do you do with the rest, bank it?
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