🌍 Europe 4d ago · Charles Ross

The lobbying industry is still getting away with it

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The lobbying industry is still getting away with it
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In the leadup to the 2010 election, the leader of the opposition David Cameron proclaimed that secret corporate lobbying “had tainted our politics for too long.” Speaking at an event at the University of East London, he told the crowd, “We all know how it works… the lunches, the hospitality, the quiet word in your ear… helping big business find the right way to get its way.” This, he said, was the “next big scandal waiting to happen”. 

Just over a decade later, Cameron found himself at the cent

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