Honours for cash has been going on now for more than half a century. Labour. Conservatives and Liberal Parties have all done it, and everybody in authority knows that. So why all this sudden crocodile tears, furore and wasting valuable police time investigating it in 2006 2007. The alternative from political parties having to fund themselves as at present is for the taxpayer to have to fund the political campaigning of all Political Parties, which means we will all have to pay higher taxes so that the smaller parties like the BNP, Scot & Welsh Nats, UKIP and Monster Raving Looney Party can campaign with equal funding to Tories, Labour and Lib Dems? That is why Nats raised matter to try to screw money out of you and me. Does anybody want to pay higher taxes for such a purpose?
2007-02-04 03:38:05 · 5 answers · asked by cimex 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
No I agree this is just a huge waste of police time and public money, occurring while Police are already over burdened with trying to protect the British population from extremist terrorist threats that have already killed many ofour people and when people being attacked in their homes or mugged in the street, raped or murdered say when they called the Police they got no response or assistance because Force was too extended elsewhere.
No, I am most cettainly not in favour of paying higher taxes to support the election campaigns of parties like UKIP, BNP nor Respect. As for seats in the House of Lords, an individual peer in the Lords has about as much power in representing the people and influencing any government's policies as does the person who cleans the Superloo at Euston station! But rest assured the people who are acting out all the crocodile tears getting ready to laugh all the way to the bank at all our expense are the army of Solicitors, Counsels and Judges who will be paid six figure amounts if this goes to Court, whether it ends in a guilty or not guilty verdict!
2007-02-05 03:15:30 · answer #1 · answered by Wamibo 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I always understood that was how they were acquired, by way of purchase.
It has always puzzled me why so many people seem to think its such a big deal to buy an honour for cash. Who give's a damn?
I'm also puzzled why all of a sudden in recent decades, "insider trading" has become a crime. What are they on about? When I worked as a telegraph operator in the London Stock Exchange in the 1960s, I took full and total advantage of prior knowledge of events before they were posted. That's probably why I'm poor. Nice try though!
2007-02-05 07:04:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, particularly if the honour is that of a peer thus giving him/her the right to play a part in the governance of the country.
Would you like to have your MP selected by the fact of his donating millions to a political party?
Both parties to this kind of shenanigan should be liable to life imprisonment.
2007-02-04 23:58:58 · answer #3 · answered by Barrie G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes we do - it was made illegal in 1925 for a reason. It looks like a few of Labour's lot will be going to jail for a couple of years. Quite right too.
2007-02-05 07:29:38 · answer #4 · answered by LongJohns 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think maybe people wouldn't care quite so much if Tony Blair had not said categorically when he was first elected - "there will be no slease in my Government". Perhaps what he meant to say is "there will be even more slease etc etc".
2007-02-05 01:48:49 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋