""FFS Don, stop and think it through. Without union funding the rich can outspend the rest of us and there is no level playing field only a perpetual advantage for government by the rich, for the rich. But, oh, hang on, despite being poor that's what you want, isn't it?""

No you clown, I've already said I agree with LH, so how does that gel with your nonsense assessment of my position.

Read what people say! It's a good way, generally, to find out what they mean.

To save you the intellectual stress of reading other peoples' posts, here is the comment I heartily endorse from LH:

""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!)""

I could easily live with the socialism of that solution.

Don T.