>Hint: corruption isn't just about simple bribery and envelopes full of banknotes passing hand.
While I agree with you, I find the bare-faced cheek of publicly-advertised "donor clubs" that promise access to the Prime Minister for a mere £50k/year absolutely sickening:
Blimey, that's a fascinating link to be so public and explicit. They boast about not being funded by Trade Unions, and then invite big business to donate £50K so they can have lunch with the PM to "defeat the rise of socialism".
What's even more amazing, the text right under that header:
> Labour has said that they would turn their backs on our nuclear deterrent, abolish our armed forces and has openly sympathised with terrorist groups who seek to destroy our way of life. Their policies for the continued economic recovery of our great nation should make alarm bells ring.
> Labour are steadily building an army of far left-wing supporters and we should ignore this at our peril.
That page is truly bizarre - I hadn't managed to read all of it before (due to blood pressure issues) but now that I read the rest of it I'm actually quite amused.
Do you think they are planning a 70's style coup?
[NB I'm probably already on a watch list after paying for a book with a debit card (duh!) in a Sinn Féin shop in Belfast)]
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I was genuinely surprised that they use that phrase - what does socialism mean in that context? The NHS, opposition to zero hour contracts, basic human decency?
I think they're very much in favor of redistributing wealth. It's just the socialists' preferred direction of the redistribution that they don't agree with.
Honestly, they've been cutting government expenditure pretty heavily across the board (to the best of my knowledge) and military expenditure is way down.
Firstly, remember that "socialism" is a dirty word in US politics, but not in EU politics. The UK Labour party does claim[1] to be a socialist party. Their homepage[2] has a link to "affiliated socialist societies".
However in this case, the tories are just scaremongering.
[1] They're not really socialist anymore, since Tony Blair & New Labour back in the 90s at least.
So … it's okay for a union to shake down 1,000 members for £50 each and donate money to a politician in hopes that he will support an agenda favourable to unions, but it's not okay for anyone else to do the equivalent?
While I agree with you, I find the bare-faced cheek of publicly-advertised "donor clubs" that promise access to the Prime Minister for a mere £50k/year absolutely sickening:
https://www.conservatives.com/donate/Donor-Clubs