Our latest investigation was on ITV News last night.

We went undercover with our friends at Democracy for Sale to explore how easy it is to get meetings with MPs, even when you’re a fake Chinese company!
#LedByDonkeys
#DemocracyForSale

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR1SqqXjFtL/?igsh=aHJqdHNuMmhvcWxr

"The best way to buy influence, he told me, wasn’t through donations to politicians or parties. It was funding think tanks.

“If you are willing to put a quarter of a million into a think tank, you can get a lot of bang for your buck,” he said."

#DemocracyForSale #USPolitics #Politics #MoneyInPolitics

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/george-monbiot-on-blair-starmer-and

How are we to understand the Information Disordered Landscape created by #SocialMedia ?

Is Western Democracy being degraded by #algorithms ?

Excellent conversation hosted by Peter Geoghan of #DemocracyForSale, in conversation with Eliot Higgins of @Bellingcat

#Disinformation #misinformation #MalInformation #USPolitics

https://substack.com/home/post/p-173937699

Real tour de force testimony from Peter Geoghan this week in Westminster.

For close to a decade Peter has worked to reveal the subterranean influence of money on #UKPolitics

#DemocracyForSale #Journalism

https://youtu.be/hckxOuguRus?si=9BeK1TF9GdvE4but

Why Democracies Serve Donors, Not Citizens
#DemocracyForSale, #MonetarySovereignty, #NeoliberalismExposed, #PublicPurposePolitics

Democracies serve donors, not citizens—Australia, the US and UK prioritise corporate interests while claiming to represent the people.

https://socialjusticeaustralia.com.au/why-democracies-serve-donors/

So much for “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”—Trump wants to sell American citizenship for $5 million a pop.

Inmate P01135809 is turning U.S. residency into a VIP gold card for the ultra-rich while demonizing immigrants who can’t pay to play.

America: now available to the highest bidder.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-wants-sell-5-million-gold-cards-foreigners-who-will-create-us-jobs-2025-02-25/

#TrumpCorruption #PayToPlay #DemocracyForSale #NoToOligarchy #Immigration #CitizenshipForSale #MAGAScam #EqualityNotExclusivity

Wessex Water’s Malaysian owners under investigation for corruption.

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-wessex-waters-malaysian-corruption

Wessex Water’s customers already have the highest bills in England. Last month, the firm admitted polluting rivers with untreated sewage.

Now Malaysian anti-corruption investigators have launched probe into YTL Power subsidiary over £700m public contract.

#DemocracyForSale #WessexWater #UkPolitics #malasia #water #privatisation #democracy

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