UK Governement to go Ahead in Cutting Funding for Opposition Parties Despite Objections - Polidicks

[t]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2808674/thumbs/h-DAVID-CAMERON-640x640.jpg[/t] [I]David Cameron pictured eating the Labour party[/I] [quote]The Government is set to signal that it intends to press ahead with plans to reduce the “cost of politics” by slashing state funding for opposition parties, according to details contained in a Cabinet Office document. Although a funding reduction on “short money allocations” – which provides tax payers’ cash for the activities of opposition parties - had been trailed at 19 per cent of its current level, hopes of rethink by the Government appear to have vanished. Cost cuts of around a fifth of current levels are laid out. The document’s details shown to The Independent, makes the case for making opposition parties face the same cuts levels currently being enforced at local and central Government levels. It calls for a cut in short money to take it back to 2014 levels, worth around £11 million over the current parliament. On the Cabinet Office’s own calculations, this would see state funds given to Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party fall by around £1.5 million. [/quote] [url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-to-press-head-with-slashing-state-funding-for-opposition-parties-a6879881.html]source[/url] Nice. Looks like the Tories can get away with doing anything they want if they say it's to cut the deficit. Looking at their approval ratings, a big chunk of the public eats that shit up, despite austerity leading to increases in income inequality and it being denounced by a number of big economists.

How the fuck is this legal, so they're essentially trying to limit the competition while they have the advantage and they don't have their own funding cut? fucking fed up of this corrupt country.

They must really hate Corbyn.

[QUOTE=Source;49769254]How the fuck is this legal, so they're essentially trying to limit the competition while they have the advantage and they don't have their own funding cut? fucking fed up of this corrupt country.[/QUOTE] The governing party doesn't get short money in the first place so it would be impossible for them to cut their own funding

Instead of cutting it they should just re divert it all to the lib dems, give them all the money in the country and they still won't get any votes.

[QUOTE=CrumbleShake;49768038] Looks like the Tories can get away with doing anything they want if they say it's to cut the deficit. Looking at their approval ratings, a big chunk of the public eats that shit up, despite austerity leading to increases in income inequality and it being denounced by a number of big economists.[/QUOTE] It's not that the public likes what the government is doing, it's that the opposition are so completely incompetent that people have no other alternative but to support the government. I mean just look at how completely awful the opposition is right now, it's not at all fit to return to government. The Labour party is ruled by an elitist clique of far-left radicals with no support from the rest of the parliamentary party. It's suffering entryist attacks from neo-militants who are trying to hijack the party machinery resulting in the party having no consistent policy on anything. The leadership has no idea how to actually "do" politics, they shun the press, hire extremely controversial figures to senior positions (e.g. Seamus Milne or John Macdonnel) and frequently flirt with other radical organisations like "Stop the War" The problem isn't that the government is popular, it's that the opposition is extremely unpopular.