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14 Cards in this Set
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What were the 3 laws on party funding
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PPERA 2000
EAA 2006 PPE 2009 |
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What did the PPERA stand for and do
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Political parties, elections and referendums Axt
30k limit on spending per constituency all donations over 5k declared |
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EAA
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Electoral administration act
Closed loophole on cash on loans for peerages |
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PPE
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Appointment of commissioners with more real experience
Tighter spending in run up to election EC can impose fines Anonymous raised to 7.5k |
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Source of funding
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Donations - rank and file members - Bernie Ecclestone
Donation from businesses - Conservatives and the city Loans - from businesses or banks in order to give party enough capital to campaign Donations in kind - lending things like busses or bill boards Membership fees - lib dems £1 a month Affiliation fees - fees from unions and such like - unite is 1/5 of labours funding state funding - short or cranbourne money |
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Problems with current system of funding subheadings
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Distorts policy and favours rich
Weakens parties, reduces membership and damages functions unfair elections Issues with law |
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distorts policy and favours ruich
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changes in policy
£1m donation by burnie ecclestone leads to smoking ban being lifted in F1 2003 Wheeler used his 500k donation to despise of IDS 4/5 labours donations comes from unions Lib dems received £2.7m from convicted fraudster Brown |
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Eval on distorts policy and favours rich
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State funding is small and transparency doesn't stop it
undemocratic - loss of control of gvmt |
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Eakens parties
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2997 election campaign 1.4 of the 20m donation to the conservatives was from individuals
Spending on swing seats is much more - Luton South it was 3.07 whilst in bootle it was 14p Party membership is below 1% Less local regional party members |
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Eval weakens party
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focused on elite grassroots ignored
membership is irrelevant Poverty of local parties surviving on £1000 Campaigns much more concentrated |
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Unfair elections
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Ukip received huge donation before MEP election and beat the lib deems
£1.4m allowed them to win their first national election |
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Unfair eval
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Labour spent less in 97
PPEPA caps on spending Referndum party spent £20m and got only 3% of the vote and lost deposit in every seat |
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Issues with current law
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Only uk Companies can donate over £200
no donations cap Weak enforcement - Ashcroft 7500 is a lot 500 non dom ananoymous Grey area on loaning things like bill boards |
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Law eval
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Lib dems struggling for cash
State funding entrenches status quo Non-cash donation loophole and potentially others despitethe anonymous loans loophole blocking.Large cash donations still not prevented.We have an electoral spending system. |
