Funding for political parties.

[Slug For A Butt]

So what you are saying is, that you must have a certain amount of votes before you can recieve public funding? That's my point exactly, how does any new party emerge or even any independant MP emerge for that matter?
You are prostituting yourself to the governing powers by wanting this.

In the UK I think we have a very good system, but unfortunately it is being abused by our own government. And it doesn't need a change of law to correct this, it just takes people voting with their ballot paper instead of their mouth in the pub.
Luckily (I think), we don't have a constitution in the UK, we have law by precedant which means that law is fluid (you win some you lose some I suppose). And the day that a law comes into effect that denies funding for smaller parties (even pro rata) is a day when we have it set in stone that only the two most powerful parties are worth even taliking about. That is a two party state that I don't want to live in.

@InsaneApache: Does it matter what you personally think about this man? No, that's the whole idea of democracy. It's not up to you to decide alone, it's up to the rest of your peers to make their decision alongside you. And by giving funding by voting percentage alone you are denying new ideas and people.