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I can handle political disagreement just fine. But there is a systemic and widely recognised issue in the UK with the government flagrantly handing out public

I can handle political disagreement just fine. But there is a systemic and widely recognised issue in the UK with the government flagrantly handing out public money without due diligence or fair recourse. Selling citizens data for profit is just another data point. https://medium.com/shit-britain/the-bumper-uk-conservative-government-corruption-thread-26d6e0fcd673 https://medium.com/shit-britain/the-bumper-uk-conservative-g... https://thejist.co.uk/politics/a-list-of-alleged-conservative-lies-corruption-and-incompetence/ https://thejist.co.uk/politics/a-list-of-alleged-conservativ... https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how-the-tories-normalised-corruption-report-205523/ https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how-the-tories-no... https://sophieehill.shinyapps.io/my-little-crony/ https://sophieehill.shinyapps.io/my-little-crony/

carmen_sandiego 6y ago
Believing that companies should be allowed to exploit data for profit is a political position, not corruption. Same for most of the things discussed in your links. Just because you might find something callous, or otherwise objectionable, doesn't make it corruption. It's also not inherently corruption when a (group of) companies go to a politician and say "we think X would be good" and the politician goes on to support X. Even if X is profitable for the companies. Many things that are profitable are also good for wider society.