But what would be the benefit to the customer of owning a share in a company whose income all comes from the customers themselves and whose outgoings are, as you note, going to have to be large? When… (View Post)

On the LibDem side, you'd want to do it because the point of being a political party is to try to make the country better by getting your ideas enacted, not merely to be a protest group. There a… (View Post)

The trouble with that kind of self aggrandizing idiot is that "you're not helping your own cause" is by definition not an argument likely to have much cutthrough with them. (See also t… (View Post)

I think at least some of the "50 vile and inadequate individuals" problem is a transitional effect, though -- if we'd had PR in place during the rise of UKIP/Brexit/Reform, that party … (View Post)

One of the pdfs that page links to has the answer: "2.2 Financial assistance to assist an opposition party in carrying out its parliamentary business shall be available if— a) There are at that … (View Post)