Comments on: Campaigning on expenses http://blog.electionleaflets.org/2010/01/campaigning-on-expenses/ The live election leaflet project Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:01:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andy http://blog.electionleaflets.org/2010/01/campaigning-on-expenses/comment-page-1/#comment-1417 Andy Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:32:01 +0000 http://blog.thestraightchoice.org/?p=376#comment-1417 For reference might be worth passing this on to the serjeant at arms office at the house of commons - as they are responsible for signing off any literature paid for under the communications allowance. You can ring the main switchboard and ask them exactly who to send it to. If you send them the two example leaflets they might well have something to say to the candidate & their leaflet designer... (I'm a former campaigns organiser so I would know...) One good thing (and I don't usually praise the Tories) is that they have committed to scrapping the communications allowance if they get elected, which they probably will... For reference might be worth passing this on to the serjeant at arms office at the house of commons – as they are responsible for signing off any literature paid for under the communications allowance. You can ring the main switchboard and ask them exactly who to send it to.

If you send them the two example leaflets they might well have something to say to the candidate & their leaflet designer…

(I’m a former campaigns organiser so I would know…)

One good thing (and I don’t usually praise the Tories) is that they have committed to scrapping the communications allowance if they get elected, which they probably will…

]]> By: Niklas Smith http://blog.electionleaflets.org/2010/01/campaigning-on-expenses/comment-page-1/#comment-1333 Niklas Smith Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:47:33 +0000 http://blog.thestraightchoice.org/?p=376#comment-1333 My personal preference would be to abolish the communications allowance entirely, but then I'm not an MP or "expert"! I wonder how such an obvious subsidy to incumbents could ever have been established in the first place. My personal preference would be to abolish the communications allowance entirely, but then I’m not an MP or “expert”! I wonder how such an obvious subsidy to incumbents could ever have been established in the first place.

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