Donations... it is never called bribery or corruption

This is bigger than most realize. It’s exactly the long term plan enacted by the religious right in the US to slowly gain a foothold (and ultimately power) in politics.

Seems to be an export to other continents now.

The 2 main parties are failing.

As such the powerful are desperate to be owed by whomever replaces both. So will donate to gain control.

Shocked Pikachu face: British political system is corrupt? It wasn't that long ago that rich people had more than one vote if they had houses in different constituencies and would travel across the country to vote many times. Or that graduated from Oxford or Cambridge had two votes. Or not long before that that candidates could round up voters take them to the pub and buy them drinks and then to cast their votes. And that's before all the cash for honours scandals...

Surely people don't believe that there was ever a time when parliamentary politics was ever honest.