tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post3795498248210283579..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Purnell Proposes Another Way to Fleece the TaxpayerIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-37753093503523131262009-05-31T20:42:34.991+01:002009-05-31T20:42:34.991+01:00As an after-thought, isn't Purnell the one who has...As an after-thought, isn't Purnell the one who has decreed that one and a half hours each way should be an acceptable time to travel for jobseekers to obtain work ?<br />That means that the Labour M.P.s who represent this be-knighted crap hole of Doncaster should be able to commute rather than have second home allowances. Always assuming that the crap rail service runs on time.David Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-68296970585194837512009-05-31T20:37:59.250+01:002009-05-31T20:37:59.250+01:00Most people do not support one party or another - ...Most people do not support one party or another - they are floating voters (but maybe with a leaning one way or another).<br />BUT, the majority of those are tax-payers ....... and why should the tax-payer fund a political party or all the political parties ?<br />If they want funds, it's by membership - that's it ...... no arguments, no theories and no funding apart from what they can legally raise in the "open market".<br />If we get state support for political parties I will be one of the first to oppose it through - and I'm almost ashamed to say it - Yuman Rights, Guv - all the way to the European court.<br />As an afterthought, if Blears is "beneath the salt", the Purnell should at least be holding the salt cellar because he's tainted goods.David Hughesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-21959770680772560462009-05-31T12:39:30.205+01:002009-05-31T12:39:30.205+01:00He got a severe kicking from most people leaving r...He got a severe kicking from most people leaving reply posts on his personal blog.Dr Evilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00176521760477086914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-10117639227455763662009-05-30T21:25:19.648+01:002009-05-30T21:25:19.648+01:00How to increase party membership?
Maybe that's a...How to increase party membership? <br /><br />Maybe that's a thought for the next Friday night (after the elections) radio show.<br /><br />I've always been put off joining the Conservative Party because I always imagined it was a bit like the Salvation Army without the trombones.<br /><br />How do you make it more appealing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-7424190944937198902009-05-30T18:26:37.179+01:002009-05-30T18:26:37.179+01:00Where the hell is Gordon Brown? The nation is fall...Where the hell is Gordon Brown? The nation is falling to pieces and he's hiding his fat arse up in Scotland, where they know he robs the English to bribe the jocks.<br />He should get his bloody kilt back to England and hand over the keys to number 10 to an English MP. He's squatted there long enough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-20838293745521393122009-05-30T18:26:03.100+01:002009-05-30T18:26:03.100+01:00'Photoshop' Purnell is the sleazeball who spent £2...'Photoshop' Purnell is the sleazeball who spent £250 of your taxes on fridge magnets, to 'enable him to do his job as an MP'. <br /><br />The man has not one ounce of moral authority and is a prime example of a greedy sleazeball trougher.Where's Brown's straitjacket?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-21945926630350280392009-05-30T18:18:01.519+01:002009-05-30T18:18:01.519+01:00There is a very simple reason why the 3 main parti...There is a very simple reason why the 3 main parties struggle with funds.<br />Approx figures for party membership<br /><br />Tory 260,000<br />Lab 168,000<br />LD 64,000<br /><br />Not enough people belong to any of the parties because none of them offer what the mass of the electorate want. All parties should be funded by member subscriptions and that's it. Perhaps we'd get some real politics and real choices and real government then.<br /><br />By the way and for comparison<br /><br />The Tory party had 2.8 Million paid up members in 1958 I can't so far find the figures for the others.wolfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03480388544439279850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-47216127933738299332009-05-30T17:53:09.421+01:002009-05-30T17:53:09.421+01:00Not one penny more. In fact a lot less would be be...Not one penny more. In fact a lot less would be better.Snipernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-66787705064644916952009-05-30T17:38:18.069+01:002009-05-30T17:38:18.069+01:00The state is already the biggest funder of the Tor...The state is already the biggest funder of the Tories. Are you proposing they give all that back?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-78445915706074294432009-05-30T17:27:46.634+01:002009-05-30T17:27:46.634+01:00Absolutely not! You cannot trust them. Look at wh...Absolutely not! You cannot trust them. Look at what they have been doing with public money. Doesn't it just get worse? You think these troughing holier than thou bastards might just be listening for a change then some tit goes and comes out with some piece of shamless, arrogant nonsense. Just what we all want to hear! No you can't have public money to fund your bunch of degenerates. Raise it yourself. Another nail in Noo Labour's coffin next week I reckon.Dr Evilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00176521760477086914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-18268290857678738782009-05-30T17:26:51.257+01:002009-05-30T17:26:51.257+01:00You're famous in Scotland now Iain. Lesley Riddoc...You're famous in Scotland now Iain. Lesley Riddoch, perhaps one of our most respected broadcasters and journalists has mention you on her 'other' blog. I've put her post up on mine.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-73513780598414344372009-05-30T17:25:57.375+01:002009-05-30T17:25:57.375+01:00It would be a very smart move for Cameron to rule ...It would be a very smart move for Cameron to rule out <I><B>all</B></I> state funding for political parties after the next election.<br /><br />This would of course cripple Labour in opposition - or the Lib-Dems if it turns out to be them - because they would be denied the "short money" the opposition parties receive now.<br /><br />It would be a cruel thing to do, but in the war against socialism the ends may justify the means!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-60410671539078358762009-05-30T17:14:50.579+01:002009-05-30T17:14:50.579+01:00Purnell is an archetypal Brown pygmy, promoted mor...Purnell is an archetypal Brown pygmy, promoted more for his 'meeja' experience than any real qualities of substance. What one might soon call 'old new-Labour', because now they are exposed as liars and hypocrites, they won't be able to get away with their shiny prestidigitation any more.The Truth Will Outnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-10922404017496754752009-05-30T16:49:52.713+01:002009-05-30T16:49:52.713+01:00Doh! We have state funding of political parties al...Doh! We have state funding of political parties already:<br /><br />The state supplies millions of pounds to the Union Modernisation Fund and the Unions in turn make political donations worth millions.Dave Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02330412326038302877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-38794780659055213612009-05-30T16:46:50.036+01:002009-05-30T16:46:50.036+01:00New Labour under Gordon - never miss an opportunit...New Labour under Gordon - never miss an opportunity to score an own goal.Platohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07416276749202589235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-62349908757924254012009-05-30T16:31:46.344+01:002009-05-30T16:31:46.344+01:00Labour's timing is spectacular as ever, for all th...Labour's timing is spectacular as ever, for all the wrong reasons.<br /><br />I get the feeling cabinet advisors play their roles well akin to 'The Emperor's New Clothes.'VotRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-13297948422565583082009-05-30T16:23:37.578+01:002009-05-30T16:23:37.578+01:00So, Labour don't have a pot to piss in...
Step fo...So, Labour don't have a pot to piss in...<br /><br />Step forward a man with a plan (to sponge off the electorate). If Labour were a business the Official Receiver would have been called in long ago. Lets not forget that people...<br /><br />Perhaps Purnell would be better regarded if he didn't live like a tramp whilst making us pay for his filthy ways.Nullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14097211775158236323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-36734549299401518982009-05-30T16:16:20.567+01:002009-05-30T16:16:20.567+01:00Anyone with ten minutes to spare, pop over to CiF ...Anyone with ten minutes to spare, pop over to CiF and see the evisceration young Purnell is getting - and when you've finished sniggering, see the thread to Ms Toynbee's offering today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-68108326302189331972009-05-30T16:15:32.351+01:002009-05-30T16:15:32.351+01:00If James Purnell is looking for monies to fund pol...If James Purnell is looking for monies to fund political parties he could do no better than abolish the "second home 3 year exemption clause" this tax avoidance scam is reckoned to have cost the Taxman (us) £14.5 billion in lost Capital Gains Tax in the tax year 2007/8.<br /><br />We all now no why there has been no rush on the Government's part to close this loophole because so many in the Labour party and other parties have been milking it to death. <br /><br />Let the Government deal with this then we the Taxpayers can decide if a fraction of these monies is worth using to fund any political party.Flemingcragnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-87868874681908988302009-05-30T16:02:43.822+01:002009-05-30T16:02:43.822+01:00What is the present situation with all the debts t...What is the present situation with all the debts the labour party has?<br /><br />I seem to recall they owed millions in soft loans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-85435398752882596302009-05-30T15:55:04.157+01:002009-05-30T15:55:04.157+01:00A month or so ago, Labour's debt was reported to b...A month or so ago, Labour's debt was reported to be nearly £20 million. I guess they've received funding to pay some of it back - the type of funding Purnell purports not to like.<br /><br />A large number of MPs only take their constituents' views into account before an election. After that, they're doing the whips' bidding. If parties were state funded, MPs would have no incentive to truly represent their constituents. They'd have no need to propose popular policies.<br /><br />This ghastly socialist idea should be killed at birth. <br /><br />Purnell's only concern is that Labour doesn't have enough support to pay for its election campaigns. Good. This is democracy in action.Faustyhttp://faustiesblog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-76911831587746478992009-05-30T15:54:01.621+01:002009-05-30T15:54:01.621+01:00Forget the current sleaze allegations, we need to ...Forget the current sleaze allegations, we need to think of ways of cutting spending to pay off Labour's trillion-pound debt. Is spending money on parties going to help us achieve that, or make it harder? Madness, pure madness. What an idiotic suggestion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-11698508180625624062009-05-30T15:41:54.788+01:002009-05-30T15:41:54.788+01:00Is it just me, or does Purnell look like Camp Fred...Is it just me, or does Purnell look like Camp Freddie in the Italian Job ?Nigelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-34694926639823916782009-05-30T15:40:40.060+01:002009-05-30T15:40:40.060+01:00I felt much the same way about Alan Johnson's prop...I felt much the same way about Alan Johnson's proposal of alternative voting systems last weekend. Voters right now want the opportunity to get rid of their MPs; any system other than FPTP would make doing that much harder...Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15252054403352395221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-17155846975381551262009-05-30T15:33:27.217+01:002009-05-30T15:33:27.217+01:00Have you looked at the comments on Purnell's Guard...Have you looked at the comments on Purnell's Guardian piece? Bad eggs and rotten tomatos in thrown in print.dheighamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13486028881822884205noreply@blogger.com