The UK election system needs reform, but I am thankful, that in a year where the mental well being
of the nation is under attack we do not also have to contend with the US election system.
I was reading in Axios today that the billionaires in the race currently have out spent all the other candidates combined in $$$$$$ advertising. In marked contrast with this, in the UK there are strict spending limits on how much one can splurge in the run up to the election (around $10k for the individual and $45k by the political party in each constituency). Now naughty politicians obviously try and get round the spirit of the rules, cause power, but they have very limited opportunities to do so.
There is one particular reason that this spending limit works. I am sure most of you know this already but the UK election season only lasts 6 weeks from beginning to end. When your nation is already a basket case because of austerity and Brexit having to go through the torture of a Primary Season and Election that seems to last for years, would I fear send our nation over the edge. I honestly don’t know how you manage to stay sane my friends.
Six weeks seems like six years at the moment… but for us it will be over soon, one way or the other.
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