Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch received £10,000 towards her campaign from the chair of a climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal.  Neil Record, a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).  […]
  • ZwiebelEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Can you just take their money and do nothing for them in return?

    • manualoverride@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Maybe, but if you are a disgusting human being anyway you may as well do everything they want and they might give you another 10k next year.

      • nickb333@fedia.io
        25·
        3 months ago

        Had she not accepted it, I’m sure they would have found someone else willing to accept their kind donation.

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, I stabbed that old lady for £500. But if I hadn’t done it, they’d have just got someone else to do it anyway! It may as well be me who gets the money!