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With the UK, I've found (as a foreigner with voting rights previously) that it's best to build your relationship with a seniorish MP, and if that doesn't work,
by fakedang 6y ago
With the UK, I've found (as a foreigner with voting rights previously) that it's best to build your relationship with a seniorish MP, and if that doesn't work, cough up to donate around 8-10k to the parties every year (for much more senior access). You'll pop a few eyeballs in Labour with such a donation, while the Conservatives have their own special interest groups for donors (although these usually end up as mass grilling sessions for the MPs).
- ben_w 6y agoI don’t know if I should be happy to know I personally can afford to buy access to UK politicians, or embarrassed that they are so cheap, but either way that is a very interesting anecdote.
- fakedang 6y agoI'd appreciate that at least the system is overt. All of the above information usually is public info. You know exactly which politician got funded by which Russian tycoon, etc.