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Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics

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The middle section of the book explores how dark money has amplified the growing influence of the American right on British politics. This is a story of ideology and finance – of how the long-term Hayekian, neoliberal project has played out on these shores. It’s a great case study in how ruling elites can be infected with policy ideas and programmes via those “second-hand traders in ideas” of whom Hayek spoke so eloquently: academics, thinktanks and media commentators. In that context, Geoghegan’s account of the genesis and growth of the European Research Group – the party within a party that did for Theresa May – is absolutely riveting. And again it leaves one wondering why there was so little media exploration of the origins and financing of that particular little cabal. Politicians lie gleefully, making wild claims that can be shared instantly with millions of people on social media. Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Jair Bolsonaro and populists in many other countries are the beneficiaries. And I didn’t spend a lot of time with Steve, but the time I did was incredibly insightful. Almost every time I saw him, he’d be showing me some new Hillary Clinton hit video that he had come out with, or announcing that he was about to throw a book launch party for Ann Coulter for ¡Adios, America!, which was something that he invited both me and Alexander to, and we promptly decided to leave the house before she arrived. As politics becomes increasingly voracious of time and occupies more and more space on digital media, the scope for hidden influence through spending outside

This super PAC was headed by David Bossie, someone that you might remember from Citizens United, who basically brought dark money into our politics and allowed endless amounts of money to be funneled into these types of vehicles so that we don’t know where all of the money is coming from for these types of manipulative communications. And he was in charge of this campaign.The book does go some way to exposing the dirty tactics in politics, that HAVE BEEN THERE FOR MANY A YEAR, and didn’t arrive just prior to the referendum. One does of course have to ask (which the author DOES NOT), “How much ‘dirty money’ from the EU is fed into the media circus in Britain and to what aim? The author might know, he is after all a journalist having worked for the Guardian, and others. This book lifts the lid how the internet combined with undisclosed financing is being used in UK political campaigning. It exposes current campaign finance rules as being open to abuse as they fall behind technological advances and changes in the voters consume information. Most disturbingly, it lays bare how think tanks funnel undisclosed money into research and campaigns aimed at influencing governments position. So this is the company admitting to their own know-how. There is no debate about whether it works or not. This is not them advertising it to the world. This is them saying, “This is what we’ve learned. Based off that, this is how we’re going to run our business. This is how we’re going to invest in the expansion of this to sell this outside of politics.” The game was, take the political experience, parlay it into the commercial sector. That was the strategy. So, there is no debate whether it worked or not. It was highly effective. The genesis of my book took place somewhere less obvious: Seaburn metro station on the outskirts of Sunderland, on June 21, 2016. Two days before the UK voted to leave the European Union, my editor had sent me to report on what voters thought in Sunderland. It was a warm summer’s morning and there were only a handful of people on the open-air platform.

AMY GOODMAN: Now, explain that, psychographic groupings, and especially for people who are not on Facebook, who don’t understand its enormous power and the intimate knowledge it has of people. Think of someone you’re talking to who’s never experienced Facebook. Explain what is there. u201c3/ What does that mean?\n\nSimply put: dominant corporations are not content to just gobble up & abuse their competitors \u2014 once dominant, they\u2019ll use their power to buy control over your government, too.\u201d — American Economic Liberties Project (@American Economic Liberties Project) Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.” ― Terry Pratchett, Mort The trollish Banks and his Farage-led Leave.EU campaign detested the mainstream Vote Leave cohort, most of which now comprises the most senior adviser team inside Downing Street. But what both Brexit campaigns had in common were their links to the Democratic Unionist Party. Banks was – and presumably remains – an ally of Ian Paisley Jr and Sammy Wilson, the Brexit ultras among the DUP MPs who experienced two years of unprecedented power after the 2017 general election in the UK. Moore warns that our democracy is no longer working as it should. ‘There is a genuine crisis of representation,’ he says. ‘How does democracy actually work in this new era? Right now it’s not at all clear that we know.’Then there is the shed loads of illegal Dark Money being pumped into various causes, be it Johnson, Trump or Brexit. The more we uncovered, the more we became aware of serious concerns about central aspects of how democracy is supposed to function. Some of what we saw was illegal. Even more alarmingly, much of it was not.

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