Pirates quarrel about Ponaders "funding scandal"
A fundraiser for John Ponader, the political manager of the Pirate Party has attracted a broad debate to himself. Idea of Ponader and his supporters was to ask him for his political work, to a monthly base income of 1,000 euros available - financed through crowd-funding. The total represents the initiators according to what the loud self-presentation as a "writer, director, drama teacher, actor and musical performers" working Ponader had previously received from the job center.
The suggestion receives from different directions fierce headwind: So-called Florian Zumkeller Quast and Paul Meyer-Dunker, her character chairman and vice chairman of the Young Pirates, Ponaders behavior as "intolerable." He used his position in order to gain a "personal privilege". With an unconditional basic income, for which he enters politics, which have nothing to do. The young pirate suggested that Ponader should better use for a general allowance for board work.
On one of the Facebook pages of the Pirates Anonymous is even in the name of the movement deprived of support - at least until Ponader was in office and "free rein" enjoy. In the controversial rant Ponader is accused, among other things, do not want to work for reasons of convenience and his party with the "political sidelines" to shoot.
Also available via podcast at a Question Time who stood Ponader on Sunday, it rained criticism - to the proposal, but he could go to work at McDonald's. Ponader himself emphasizes that he does not see the money as a donation but as a "test" form of the unconditional basic income. Klaus complained Peukert from the National Board of the pirates the prevailing attitude in the debate: "Who does not work shall not eat." He pointed out Rickard Falkvinge, the founder of the Swedish Pirate, who financed his full-time work for the party in the meantime also by donations.
Earlier, the income situation Ponaders have been the subject of media attention: The debate over whether the called "Hartz IV pirate" Ponader dubbed illegitimate benefits have referred culminated, finally, in an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in which Ponader renounced the transfer of services to the public.
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