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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: albie on September 05, 2019, 06:54:16 pm

Title: Dark Money
Post by: albie on September 05, 2019, 06:54:16 pm

Getting a bit lost in all the discussion, so a reminder of the political payola scam in the background;
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/brexit-dark-money-and-big-data/

A longish read, but if you want to understand how we got into this state!

Title: Re: Dark Money
Post by: idler on September 05, 2019, 09:32:46 pm

Quote from: albie on September 05, 2019, 06:54:16 pm

Getting a bit lost in all the discussion, so a reminder of the political payola scam in the background;
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/brexit-dark-money-and-big-data/

A longish read, but if you want to understand how we got into this state!

Very disturbing. Honesty seems to be going out of fashion very fast.

Title: Re: Dark Money
Post by: wilts rover on September 05, 2019, 09:35:59 pm

Thanks Albie, they have been researching that for a while.

Title: Re: Dark Money
Post by: albie on February 18, 2020, 05:23:08 pm

Dark Money has not gone away.

It has re-emerged in funding via non official channels in the "red wall" seats;
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/revealed-secret-cash-put-boris-johnson-number-10/

Democracy in the UK is being undermined every day, without checks and balances keeping up with modern trends for election spending.

Finding out about this stuff after the event is the new normal.