This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition CHANGE THE LAW to stop party appointees from using public funds for party gain.
Our penultimate Prime Minister used 9 million pounds of public funds to publish a Conservative Party brochure on BREXIT for party benefit. Our current Prime Minister used 1000 million pounds to buy NI Unionist party votes to keep her in power.
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Income and other taxes are paid for the running of the country as a whole. On two recent occasions political ideologist appointees have used that money for the direct benefit of their political party. Prime Minister is a party political appointment, there is no direct public vote to that position, and there is no mandate for them to spend our taxes to the direct benefit of their political party. That is not a situation which can obtain and laws must be changed to prevent it happening again.
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