The Electoral Finance Bill, limiting certain types of electioneering funding and activities, is a good idea?

On average, everyone disagrees with significant nonconsensus between 67 voters.

Reasons To Disagree

The current bill is rubbish & should be killed. Some restrictions are needed, but not at the risk of stopping free speech.

While the law about election spending needs to be tidied up this is not the law to do it, it is designed to help Labour get an advantage over other parties.

A dreadful attack on our democratic rights

Proponents of this law are afraid that the rich and the freedom-loving will unseat them from power. Why not? Look at the records of the socialists who put this law forward; those profit haters and control freaks who demand provision from the able for those who produce nothing. For hatred of money, those socialists have nothing but the law, this law, to keep them in power.

This Bill is a disgrace - Commissar Clerk is blatantly trying to rig the system in her favour. When this fails - she'll go all out for public funding of parties (and guess who'll get the major share?). At the moment the public puts their money where THEY want it to be - and that is right and proper.

Kill it. Start again and do it properly.

Reasons To Agree

It puts a dampener on what those with the most wealth can say so that those lacking wealth can still be heard, which is one of the very cornerstones of democracy. We don't want to become a plutocracy.

Totally agree. This does not stop free speech - don't be talked into that by a biased media. It stops elections being bought. I do not want to live in a country like the US where you can't represent your people without vast sums of money. To the person who says the money will go to Labour - have a heart they raise money selling cakes - it's to stop big business buying elections and MPs so they can make bigger profits. I bet the person who spelt Helen Clarks name wrong is a bloke with a small willie.

Money is NOT speech, so should be and can be limited.