What no one wishes to admit is that lobbying is simply rampant corruption that has been anchored in legality by those who profit from it: politicians. Simple principles like a level playing field – a citizen does not have the funds to wine and dine politicians, invite them to luxury “information travel”, provide them and their families with well paid jobs (during and after their politically active period), etc. – seem to be irrelevant with regard to lobbying.
Things seem to come in cycles. We have been at this for some years now – trying to articulate the principles of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in various ways in various fora. Read here
This is probably what will decide the election: if those working class Labour supporters who voted for Brexit, know most Labour politicians are neo-liberal middle class, who hate them, but also know the other parties […]
Although Bill Mitchell warns that “this blog post considers some very technical material” he does an excellent job of explaining what it all means. Read here
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