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He got an MP on his side which seems to be all it takes these days in the UK.
by mvc 5y ago
He got an MP on his side which seems to be all it takes these days in the UK.
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- madaxe_again 5y agoYou’d be amazed at how cheap it is. You can usually get an MP to do your bidding or say your piece in Parliament for a donation of £10k or less. I’ve never heard of anyone paying more.
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- gnfargbl 5y agoIt would be a contempt of Parliament to either request or agree to such an arrangement [1]. If you have definitive evidence of this having happened in the recent past, you really should pass it on to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. [1] https://erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/5023/corruption-or-impropriety/ https://erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/5023/corruption-or-...
- madaxe_again 5y agoThis is why it’s a donation to the party - not to them or their office - although they can want a campaign contribution, which again doesn’t count as going to them. I’ve had an MP literally solicit this from me - he emailed a bunch of local businesses basically stating his price list. He’s no longer an MP, or in politics - but you see this stuff everywhere, all the time. Any member’s bill you see has almost certainly been sponsored.
- Grustaf 5y agoDoes that include the lobbyist's cut, or would you go directly to the MP? But how much do you really gain from buying a single MP?
- toyg 5y agoMPs typically move in packs ("areas" or "currents", that may or may not be officially organized around a thinktank or club), so buying the right MP you can actually move several of them. And then your representative goes and trades favors with the colleagues in government - "I'll vote for your controversial legislation if you pull that other lever over there". Representative democracy is a big sausage factory: in go blood and guts, out comes "edible" rules that society will live on.
- silverscania 5y agoThe IoM isn't in the UK and nor does it have MPs. Probably just semantics but I have to point that out.
- MagnumOpus 5y agoIoM has MPs, just not UK MPs. The OP almost certainly meant an MP from the Manx Tynwald parliament.
- silverscania 5y agoIt doesn't though, that's my point. The Isle of Man has MHKs and ministers, not "MPs": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Keys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Keys. It's like saying a politician in the UK is a "senator" and expecting people think you are an authority on the subject.