Common Decency

The present uncontrolled system is such an obvious and flagrant unfairness it’s almost impossible to believe that the Tories have got away with it for so long. We have an election in which TV and RADIO are forced to be scrupulously balanced in their exposure of political views. We have a cap on what local candidates can spend on promoting themselves. Yet nationally, there is no fairness whatsoever. In the 2010 election, the Green Party spent roughly £325,000 on their entire election campaign. (The Conservative party spent over 15 million pounds. How can that possibly be fair ? How can this be allowed to continue ? And this funding was provided largely by obscenely rich sponsors – the very people whose riches are protected by Cameron’s gang. So there is no way under a Tory Government that this gross indecency will ever be fixed. A decent Parliament would change this in an instant.

Party Spending in 2010

	Party	Seats	Contested	Total spent	England	Scotland	Wales
	Conservative	306	631	£16,682,874	£14,298,166	£1,273,110	£1,111,598
	Labour*	258	631	£8,009,483	£6,516,412	£967,904	£525,116
	Lib Dem	57	631	£4,787,595	£3,987,035	£470,619	£329,941
	Scottish National	6	59	£315,776		£315,776
	Plaid Cymru	3	40	£144,933			£144,933
	Green	1	335	£325,425	£325,425
* – excludes Co-operative Party spending

https://www.commondecency.org.uk/may-7th-2015/history-of-voting-1997-2005/35-2010-general-election-results-summary