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It surely isn't hard to draft legislation to treat donations between democratic organisations differently to billionaires.

Farage's whole schtick is based on grievance.... Imagine how he'd have riled up his base if somehow the govt has tried to stop this payment. Burnham is a grown up.

Treasonous. Literally bribery on the biggest scale

Not keeping sufficient records. Fucking amazing stuff. Your honor I only placed the knife into the person's chest 56 times. How can I be held responsible!

Would "he paid Trump a bribe for that pardon" be protected speech?

What a waste. I'm still not going to vote for them.. ever!

What on earth do they do with all that money? It's an obscene amount which could be better used than on politics.

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like Starmer he is committing suicide

Why couldn't they differentiate between in individual donating and an organisation representing 1000s of people?

You illustrate my point. The Unite funding is actually made of '000s of smaller donations, not one person shovelling obscene amounts towards what is essentially a political campaigning company

For quite some time now, he’s been telling everyone who will listen how it’s going

Reform's 6 x fundraising advantage over Labour is, apparently, a 'level playing field'

the fact that a party is allowed to be a ltd company is a disgrace

But lets be honest, such a model didnt have much room for the Mandelson and McSweeneys of the world, and it certainly didnt play well at the spectator garden party.

I remember someone saying in response to the first headline something to the effect 'Do the Trade Unions think they can outbid dodgy billionaires?' And so it came to pass.

To be fair, I don’t think he could have got this donation in time even if he pushed ahead with a bill.

Starmer was going ahead with it it’s Burnham who’s put the brakes on it, get it right ffs

Are the Unions now going to match this amount of funding then 🙄

Is this for real?

Burnham's Back Track

Burnham is as weak as piss, should have stuck to posing round Manchester

Wait am I being daft or is there a separate legislation aiming to reduce donations from foreign donors and from crypto in particular? Why is this donation being allowed?

The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.

Burnham? What a wanker!

Money launderer pardoned by the 'murican Grifter-in-Chief "donates" a shit load of money to self-serving, self-centred, right-wing, racist, Engerlish grifter. Surprised? Nope.

Disgusted by this. Was in Burnham’s hands to do something and he copped out.

Is there a bigger own goal in politics. Why am earth wouldn't Burnham go for this. Not only the right thing to do to protect democracy, but it's the far right who are benefitting from being able to buy democracy now.

How hard would it have been to include a caveat in the rules so that union donations are counted for each of the individuals that contribute.

Still, I'm sure it was a personal gift and he won't expect anything in return. The only good thing is Tufton St. won't be booking him in for party poliical broadcasts on Question Time, Toady etc and we won't have to put up with his ranine mouche for a while yet.