What we must do is decide how to regulate this area. The optimum system is that most of the money should come from public funds. We will never be able to impose total equality on this because people will fundraise and should be able to do so. People will bypass the system without breaking the law. Systems of funding political parties are virtually impossible to police. While the present controversy can be quantified in terms of Government Ministers having spent public money on their elections, other things cannot be quantified.