Posted: Apr 15, 2012 12:50 pm
chairman bill wrote:Except, as any fool can see, it's not actually a special exemption, is it?
Of course it is. Members should have to actively opt-in to donations.
chairman bill wrote:By 'claim', do you mean 'lie'?
Obviously not. Imagine Tesco had a policy whereby anyone who had a Clubcard automatically accepted that money would be donated to a political party on their behalf, unless they opted out. This would be much the same situation as currently exists with unions.
The obvious reason Labour are opposed to donations being opt-in is because people would actively have to choose to give money to Labour rather than be sufficiently apathetic enough to opt-out, and this would reduce the amount of money Labour gets by a considerable amount. It's so transparently cynical and completely indefensible.