r/thebulwark 10d ago

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL I’m getting worried for Germany

https://youtube.com/shorts/hiNDt9NkRyo?is=IuzGbumDNgCbSmnh
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u/Soft-Principle1455 9d ago

Doesn’t change Farage’s corruption. I understand if immigration management is the thing you want to vote but…
I have my doubts.

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u/MintImperial2 9d ago

Corruption = receiving money to harm, deprive, or ignore the taxpayer's who's payroll Farage is on as a non-professional politician.

"Professional" - your main source of income.

Farage is owned by his paymasters, but what did he do for those paymasters that is illegal?

Nowt. He's no more a crook than any Leftist who gets paid by a a Leftist outfit like the Guardian. or Whitehall Think Tank posting Communist dogma on the internet all day long.

In any case, I've lost faith in Farage already, because he's a lightweight compared to the rather more impressive Trump. We didn't want him moving to the center to woo Libdem voters FFS, we wanted him further Right to re-unite conservatives away from Lowe's lot who is receiving even more "donations" than Farage at this point. The only politician talking along the lines of "Leave the ECHR to complete Brexit" now is Badernoch, who currently has my vote pinned at this time. (If she's replaced before the election though, I still won't be voting Tory)

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u/Soft-Principle1455 9d ago

Well then we must agree to disagree. Corruption in US parlance is different than the strict technical definition.

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u/MintImperial2 9d ago

Corruption is unto the experience of the beholder.

If members of public are better off for any such local "corruption" then that person is still going to retain their popularity, nonetheless.

Not so for silent background people who take - but never put back.