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C_Rush · 12-01-2008, 01:42 PM

Question:

According to the coalition, this mess is being predicated on the Conservatives introducing legislation to cancel public financial support for political parties. The Conservatives have a successful private donation plan that funds them, while the other parties are happy to suckle at the public purse teat instead doing any actual grunt work to fund themselves. How is this a bad thing, other than the other parties are too lazy to develop grassroots donation drives like the Conservatives have?

12-01-2008, 01:42 PM	#453
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