BENEFITS RECEIVED BY GROUP FROM SOURCES OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (a not-for-profit organisation) acts as the group’s secretariat and funds the group’s annual dinner.
every time I write how I feel about the above, it just appears as a long row of little stars,**** *** ****
I can understand such feeling is abstract - but in the real world, an organisation like BASC must surely be expected to use our/its money if not overtly to buy political influence, then at the very least to 'oil the wheels' in time-honoured ways. I view that kind of thing as actually what we'd expect BASC to be doing.
I think this is very different to BASC's involvement in 'working closely' with Police and HO: where their only tokens of exchange are our rights and freedoms; and the distribution of skill, experience and power in 'negotiation' so clearly favours the other side.