Re:Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European pr...
by pjc50 on Saturday October 23, 2021 @12:08PM
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It costs about £150k to become an unelected member of the UK permanent legislature, and bribe your way into an office of state: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/arise-lord-offor...
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Re:Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European pr...
by toyg on Saturday October 23, 2021 @01:35PM
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Those are the donations that were declared, to maintain a pretense of propriety. What sits in Panama, you'll probably never know. 150k is too low a price for that seat, particularly since the cash-for-peerages practice is now so old that the competition must be significant. Either there is more undeclared or this guy knows where the bodies are buried.