Cash for politics

By The Newsroom

Published 18th Mar 2010, 20:00 BST

Updated 18th Mar 2010, 20:02 BST

I am surprised there is not more outrage at taxpayers' cash being used to support a political party, whether £2,000 via a Glasgow quango (your report, 17 March) or trade unions (Letters, 15 March) receiving £96 million from us since 1998 and paying a roughly similar sum to Labour.

Is the government, by effectively financing its own party with our money through union officials, not emulating the old Soviet Union?

JOHN BIRKETT

Horseleys Park

St Andrews

Glasgow Labour