party funding

By the weird laws of the suspended Assembly an ex MLA continued legally taking her £55k salary…

Mick Fealty on October 20, 2017, 11:34 am

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It turns out the Principal Deputy Speaker (don’t ask about the title, it was the product of another wee DUP/SF deal) has been quietly taking money for a job she’s no longer in a position to do (she didn’t stand in March). In contrast to her fellow (just ordinary, upper ‘caps’) Deputy Speaker Danny Kennedy, she chose not resign and to continue taking the money. [Nice work, if you can get it? – Ed] Sinn Fein seemingly hung her out …

Sinn Fein abstain on ‘funding from Russia’ motion in the European Parliament…

Mick Fealty on June 11, 2015, 5:14 pm

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Interesting piece in passing. 70.8% of MEPs voted in favour of a resolution calling for a ban on funding of political parties in the EU by non-EU “political or economic stakeholders”. Sinn Fein’s group (many of them former communists) was against the motion. All four of Sinn Fein’s MEP’s abstained, and are marked as GUE-NGL rebels by Vote Watch. The BBC reports… Much of the text lambasted the Russian government for its crackdown on political opponents, gay activists and civil society …

Cruddas case raises the locked and partisan issue of party funding…

Mick Fealty on March 26, 2012, 8:01 am

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Oh dear. It’s hard to know which side of the Irish Sea to start the day’s stories… Hmmm… since it’s a little more pressing (and the Tories don’t wait for the adverse headlines of 15 year long enquiries), let’s start with Murdoch’s sting on Cameron Peter Cruddas, the, erm, very temporary co Treasurer of the Conservative Party. Not a great start [and end – Ed] to a promising career. Iain Martin has the dope: “One hundred grand is not Premier …