MPs Warn Of Political Funding 'Scandal'

People do not contribute to political parties for nothing,they want something in return,you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours has always been the way in politics,the whole system is corrupt from top to bottom.

Not only do they want us to vote them in ( to make our lives hell ) they now want us to PAY for the privilege of doing so !!!!!!!!! Just how barefaced can you be ??

They would still get money from business, the £|23 million will just be an added bonus that they didn't have to work for.

Sounds like a sheriff of nottingham tax to me. bring back Robin Hood.

Another load of rubbish, they talked about capping rich people's wages and what happened the bankers bonus, no faith in these lot. When they get jobs go, the rich get richer and the poor poorer

so we pay 23m to fund what are essentialy PLCs? If we have to pay then we should have more say!!

I am a Taxpaying Menber of the Electorate and I WILL NOT PAY TO FUND POLITICAL PARTIES!

A simple question: If we elect an MP, shouldn't that person work on our behalf? Do we therefore need to have Conservative, LibDem, Labour etc. parties and wouldn't that then end the need for this political funding which I, as a tax payer, would see as an absolute waste of money as the spending would be totally beyond scrutiny - another expenses scandal.

Bit of a coincidence this, have news international threatened to reveal who is their pocket in the light of recent arrests?

Give the crooks of Westminster a body blow at the next election
DONT VOTE FOR ANY OF THE THREE LARGER PARTIES!
Lets show them that they supposed to serve us!

use the £5.7 ml commons catering subsidies,that will help ,but poor darlings will have to pay for their own cheese sandwiches

The politicians of this and every country rely on us to hand over responsibility to them. It doesn't matter who you vote for if we expect them to sort out our problems. Politicians cannot do this. They can win votes, apportion blame, take credit, take money and hand it out again. They can not solve problems.
Taking big donations out of politics is a good idea as long as money doesn't get to influence politics in other ways. And it will always find a way.
Stop expecting these people to sort out your lives. We need to start taking collective responsibility so that we can start telling them "we no longer need you in this part of our lives." And then bit by bit we can reclaim power from these individuals.

No effing way are more of my taxes going to the main 3 parties so they can lie and ignore the will of the public and just do what they in their oh so superior minds think is right

WELL I NEVER....................NO CHANGE THERE THEN BUSINESS AS USUAL

I didn't ask for any of them, so why should I have to fund them?

Quite simply, if a political party has to rely on OUR tax £££s to fund them, then they are clearly not popular amongst the electorate as they do not have enough of the ordinary man and woman on the street to fund them. Party membership fees should pay for it. I started my own business, I don't ask the political parties to bail me out when cash in tight!

It might only add to up the equivalent of just over 50p per person in the UK, but in my household of three, that can buy us a pint of milk, a loaf of value brand bread, and a can of value brand baked beans. We need that cash a lot more than a political party needs that cash to fund their publicity machine and their vanity in believing any of us trusts them..

i myself will niether vote for or pay any money to any political parties of this country
these wanabe s mps are a bunch of numptys and couldnt run a vicars tea party!

NO TAX PAYERS MONEY FOR THESE SCROUNGING MP.S LET THEM PAY OUT OF THE OVERPAID WAGES THEY GET

Does that mean if I form an alternative party, to represent the will of the British people, it'll automatically benefit from £23 million public funding? No,of course not. It's just the latest LibLabCon trick to irradicate any democratic opposition threat.

Tell us something we dont already know.... Kick the whole crooked bunch of them out of Westminster.... Vote for any party other than them. Theyre screwing us every day....Right left and centre

Removing large donations from the system would mean we pick up the bill, £23 million, how then would that grow to be £50 m within 5 years, as most if not all the mp's are quite well off let them pay for it all themselves. Also would this include banning payments from unions into the labour party?