Influential Labour committee chairs call on government to clean up politics as our new analysis finds record £42 million in company donations ahead of last election
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.
I think you’re glossing over the fact that plural voting also applied to graduates of Durham, Bristol, U of Wales, U of London, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Reading, Manchester and Sheffield.
Yes, you are correct. And I’m also not being accurate in that the second vote was for the University’s constituency rather than two in the home constituency.
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.
A century is plenty long ago.
Oxbridge graduates double votes only ended in 1950. 2021 for the last major cash for honours scandal. Not so long ago really.
I think you’re glossing over the fact that plural voting also applied to graduates of Durham, Bristol, U of Wales, U of London, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Reading, Manchester and Sheffield.
Yes, you are correct. And I’m also not being accurate in that the second vote was for the University’s constituency rather than two in the home constituency.