Fianna Fáil Proposes Corporate Donations Ban

[Bren Boru]

This is up there with Bertie claiming to be a socialist..!

[A REASON]

The blueshirts will only focus on who this proposal came from. They don't want to deal with the reality that their own party act very similar. Secretly they admired the way FF did business, they were jealous of how they operated. They feel it's now their turn to have their noses in the trough.

[darach]

What the fvck does this mean?SF HAVE BEEN ON ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS

It's rare to hear of SF supporting FF in the Dáil. I'm glad to hear they've been on about it for years but FF has now proposed the bill and hopes to see it passed.

[borntorum]

So long as the occupants of the Crystal Palace continue to launch massive boulders of hypocrisy towards all and sundry?

And where are FG's clean hands when it comes to corporate financing and party fundraising?

[Zubeneschamali]

This is like the time I stopped the youngfellas pocket money for trashing the sitting room, and he wanted the sisters pocket money stopped too, for fairness sake.

[hammer]

Either people want the culture of businesses funding political parties to continue or they don't. People can try and diminish this bill but it has taken the Opposition to bring this legislation forward. FG wants to continue with it's private K Club fundraisers it seems, hence the reason so many of it's posters have rushed to try and denigrate this forum.

Act your age Daragh and stop taking the bait.

Only 3 weeks ago we were talking about BIFFOs secret rendez vous. Are you know saying that this was wrong ?

[darach]

The blueshirts will only focus on who this proposal came from. They don't want to deal with the reality that their own party act very similar. Secretly they admired the way FF did business, they were jealous of how they operated. They feel it's now their turn to have their noses in the trough.

I agree entirely, not one person has addressed the issue of the secretive K Club fundraisers organised by FG. Who wants to defend this? The FF bill will end this culture, that's the reality.

[darach]

Act your age Daragh and stop taking the bait.

Only 3 weeks ago we were talking about BIFFOs secret rendez vous. Are you know saying that this was wrong ?

I don't know what you're talking about in terms of the ''secret rendez vous'' Hammer. It's as simple as this, it's a good bill and it should be passed.

[corelli]

For how long is that going to be the default FG response to any proposals or arguments made by FF?

Pretty much forever, if it is as gratuitously cynical as this.

[toxic avenger]

I agree entirely, not one person has addressed the issue of the secretive K Club fundraisers organised by FG. Who wants to defend this? The FF bill will end this culture, that's the reality.

What about individual donations from people who make up corporations - how do FF propose to deal with that? I gave an example above. If corporations want to buy influence (and I'm not saying that they all do), what difference if the donation is from a corporation or from a series of prominent individuals within that corporation? Surely the corrosive effect that FF's bill is supposedly aimed at eliminating remains in place?...