Tag Archives: Leftist Politics

In my last post, I showed that if the Government paid all legally-permitted campaign spending — for every candidate, every party, every council election and every general election — the total cost would work out at roughly:

People often assume politics is extravagantly expensive: parties splurging millions, donors buying influence, elections being giant money-burning exercises.

So here’s the real question:

What would it cost if the Government paid all legally allowed campaigning costs – national and local – instead of political parties and donors?

I’m going to calculate it at the absolute maximum legal spending, assuming:

The UK’s political system isn’t broken — it’s working exactly as designed, just not for the public. This article explores how donor influence, privatisation, short-term politics, declining education, rising inequality and “swing” governance have created a nation stuck in permanent crisis. From the sale of nationalised industries to the collapse of social care and chronic underinvestment, the evidence points to one conclusion: without strict limits on political donations and a shift toward stable, boring, long-term politics, the UK cannot rebuild trust, prosperity or democratic resilience. Preventative, predictable governance is not radical — but demanding it in a donor-driven system is. This is why I am a radical leftist: because the system needs more than nudges; it needs rebuilding.