Dark Money

[albie]

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!

[idler]

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.

[wilts rover]

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

[albie]

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.