Taxpayers Funding Political Parties - Review Panel

Colin McNamee · 01-11-2006, 04:29 PM

kernow, mkpdavies

Thanks for response.

You cannot be sure that objections will just be ignored. On the broader issue I suspect most of us in UKIP are not in it because we keep being ignored. It is achieving the end result despite being ignored.

As the 20th November approaches and with Sir Phillip's Interim Assessment roport recently published now is the time when the national and regional media could start to become interested.

Effectively another indirect tax on the way as well as being undemocratic. With recent reports of significant council tax increases on the way next year the electorate is getting ****** off.

This one could be the tipping point. It will certainly help at any rate if it is publicised enough.

general comment

How many friends, neighbours - not just UKIP members - have we e-mailed the details to for them to object ?

How many letters have we sent to the local press, particularly where there have been recent articles / letters in the media regarding taxes? Go in on the back of them or straight in on the undemocratic issue.

The clock is ticking on this one.

Colin McNamee · 03-11-2006, 03:02 PM

We have lift off.

prober wrote

Quote:

......... I am afraid that the UKIP corporate view seems to be that members are wasting their effort getting involved in the funding review consulatation......

If it was true when this written it certainly isn't now.

Get in there and be active and encourage others to lodge objections.

May or may not be window dressing but that is no reason to roll over for the sake of a few minutes getting objections in.

Colin McNamee · 07-11-2006, 08:41 PM

http://www.ukip.org/ukip_news/gen12.php?t=1&id=2712

and in the Western Daily Press, daily cira 48,000, a more modest contribution

06 November 2006

Quote:

Sir

OUR MPS ARE SIMPLY BAD VALUE FOR MONEY

In response to the article by Matthew George ("Revealed: Your MP costs £200,000 a year", Western Daily Press, October 27), it has to be said that our MPs are simply bad value.They no longer represent their electorate but their party's interests.

Their parties fail to deliver what they promise, and arguably they no longer represent the interests of the United Kingdom. Their manifestos have to meet the criteria of the real government in Brussels, and are therefore misleading.

We may soon have to pay, again through taxation, for their political games in General Elections if the Review Panel on State (taxpayer) Funding for Political Parties finds in their favour.

The closing date for submissions to the Review Panel is November 20, and many members of the electorate have lodged their objections to what is, in effect, an abuse of taxpayers' money for these profligate spenders.

Objections may be lodged on http://www.partyfundingreviewsurvey.org.uk/survey.php

The latest annual allowance which they have just voted themselves, on November 1, is a £10,000 communications allowance.

If what they had to say to the public was honest, then maybe it wouldn't be so bad, but the deceit by and also the standing of the political parties must surely be at an all-time low.

No doubt that has contributed to the 40 per cent of the electorate who didn't vote in the 2005 General Election.

Little wonder that the LibLabCon want to get their collective snout into the taxpayers' trough.

If the LibLabCon were a product, the electorate could claim, and win, under the Misrepresentation of Goods Act.

Colin McNamee

Simply make it happen or in this case not happen by getting objections in.

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01-11-2006, 04:29 PM	#11 (permalink)
Colin McNamee Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somerset Posts: 894	kernow, mkpdavies Thanks for response. You cannot be sure that objections will just be ignored. On the broader issue I suspect most of us in UKIP are not in it because we keep being ignored. It is achieving the end result despite being ignored. As the 20th November approaches and with Sir Phillip's Interim Assessment roport recently published now is the time when the national and regional media could start to become interested. Effectively another indirect tax on the way as well as being undemocratic. With recent reports of significant council tax increases on the way next year the electorate is getting ****** off. This one could be the tipping point. It will certainly help at any rate if it is publicised enough. general comment How many friends, neighbours - not just UKIP members - have we e-mailed the details to for them to object ? How many letters have we sent to the local press, particularly where there have been recent articles / letters in the media regarding taxes? Go in on the back of them or straight in on the undemocratic issue. The clock is ticking on this one.