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Dark money is pushing democracy in the UK over the edge

By George Monbiot for The Guardian We urgently need new rules to prevent the capture of our politics by billionaires and corporations and their secretive funding How is this acceptable? A multimillionaire City asset manager has pledged to spend up…

Britain’s banks now know that they can keep buying our elections

Adam Ramsay 10 May 2017 for openDemocracyUK Let’s not forget who it is that pays for Tory party campaigns, and that what they demand in exchange threatens us all. In a way, the story of the last decade of British…

The Fire Power of the Financial Lobby

A Survey of the Size of the Financial Lobby at the EU level Published by Corporate Europe Observatory(CEO), The Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer) and The Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB) – April 2014. “Despite this manifest presence of…