The findings about Reform’s funding come as the UN General Secretary calls for a fossil fuel advertising ban to “directly confront those in the fossil fuel industry who have shown relentless zeal for obstructing progress.”
The issue there is it benefits the current largest party
A system where all parties with >1% vote share get a fixed budget, with parties lower than that being required to source their own funding but not being allowed to spend more than the budget would be better as it’d allow for any realistic contender to not be as corrupt
The main alternative would be state funding, proportional to vote share. The big question would be how one establishes a new party
The issue there is it benefits the current largest party
A system where all parties with >1% vote share get a fixed budget, with parties lower than that being required to source their own funding but not being allowed to spend more than the budget would be better as it’d allow for any realistic contender to not be as corrupt