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You’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 hear
by madaxe_again 5y ago
You’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.