Lydia Conwell :mastodon:<p>You folk in the US fretting over some rich guy buying influence in government.</p><p>Don't worry. That sort of thing is commonplace, and totally normal in western politics.</p><p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/AnotherAngryVoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnotherAngryVoice</span></a> | Starmer left Britain vulnerable to malign foreign influence</p><p>"According to a new book on Starmer's rise to power, Starmer cancelled a clampdown on malign foreign influence on our politics on the say so of one of his mega-rich donors (the guy who paid for his glasses)"</p><p><a href="https://anotherangryvoice.substack.com/p/starmer-left-britain-defenceless" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">anotherangryvoice.substack.com</span><span class="invisible">/p/starmer-left-britain-defenceless</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/PartyDonors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartyDonors</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/ForeignInfluence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForeignInfluence</span></a></p>