""It would be better if all candidates were funded equally (and modestly) from the public purse, and all got exactly the same amount of neutral media coverage during a campaign, so they could fairly present themselves and their ideas without being slandered and demonized. That would be a fair and uncorrupted system. It would also be: socialism! (gasp!)""

And most of us in the UK would like to see the same here.

No billionaire donors for the Tories, and no group donations from trades unions who claim "The money's from our million members". Sure it is, but the power it generates when collectively applied keeps the Labour Party in thrall to Union interests, and if I wanted government by Unions I'd want to vote for it.

Don T.