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Enlighten me please, as I don't believe the reasons for passing it are genuine.
by merinowool 8y ago
Enlighten me please, as I don't believe the reasons for passing it are genuine.
- ahartmetz 8y agoLobbyists don't usually hand over money. Usually they are just good at appearing trustworthy and, uh, explaining the positions of their clients in terms that politicians understand. Therefore, their explainees think they are doing genuinely good things.
- ahartmetz 8y agoBy the way, I saw a honest-to-god lobbyist at a panel discusssion once. He was wearing a sort of relaxed suit and had a slight punk vibe with slightly messy hair. The personality-free banker look wouldn't win trust so easily when speaking for business interests. Those people really know what they are doing.
- merinowool 8y agoSurely they don't hand over cash, I didn't mean that, but they give benefits by different means.
- Filligree 8y agoThe main benefit they give is to explain technical concepts in terms the politicians understand. Sometimes that's a "benefit", but that's when calling them yourself helps the most.
- merinowool 8y agoThat benefit could also be a card to anonymous account in tax haven.
- ameister14 8y agoWell, they have in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_cash_for_influence_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_cash_for_influence_scanda...
- r3bl 8y agoI'm way oversimplifying this, but I'm going to enlighten you by saying that this isn't a part of law yet. It merely passed a checkpoint called legal committee (that consists of 25 MEPs) on its way to become a part of law. There are still multiple checkpoints that can be used to counter this, and the proposal will almost certainly be voted on by the entire EP, probably in December/January. That's why calling your representative makes a difference.