Farage calls it a personal gift, others call it a bung, an undeclared bung. Bung or gift it will cost the British taxpayers £250,000 to run the by-election his resignation has now caused, a by-election that will probably be only contested by Farage and Count Binface. This is nothing short of contempt and abuse of the electorate in what passes for a so called democratic electoral system that’s rapidly resembling the illusion of democracy in the USA, where donors and lobby groups have far more influence over government policy than millions of voters.
Today here in the UK we have property magnates, Bio Pharma entrepreneurs, Supermarket chains, Health Tech companies, Hedge Funds who have millions of pounds invested in arms companies selling arms to genocidal states such as Israel. Aside from these organisations we have former government ministers lobbying on behalf of the arms industry and oil and energy giants, all buying government influence and shaping policy that the ordinary man and women in the street have no hope of competing against.
The five million quid Farage pocketed is a sum of money beyond most people’s dreams, but it’s a part of the process of what buys influence, government taxpayer funded contracts into everything from the NHS to the Ministry of Defence and to local government.
Who owns who and what today in Britain, who do politicians work for and on whose behalf, it’s certainly not for us!
By SLP member Denis Doody