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A review by monikasreadingadventures
Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan
challenging
informative
medium-paced
5.0
I urge anyone who lives in the UK to read this book.
Geoghegan explains how dirty money influences UK politics, especially most recently in the Brexit vote and the election in 2019. Geoghegan also explains the dirty tactics used to persuade voters to vote for Brexit as well. For that reason I think it's necessary for everyone to read this book and understand the problems in UK politics now.
The only downside of this book is the New Afterword on Cronyism in the Time of Covid that was included in my edition of the book as the last chapter of the book has a sombre but hopeful ending and then the afterword just railed in on cronyism, which wasn't relevant to the topic (albeit related to it).
Geoghegan explains how dirty money influences UK politics, especially most recently in the Brexit vote and the election in 2019. Geoghegan also explains the dirty tactics used to persuade voters to vote for Brexit as well. For that reason I think it's necessary for everyone to read this book and understand the problems in UK politics now.
The only downside of this book is the New Afterword on Cronyism in the Time of Covid that was included in my edition of the book as the last chapter of the book has a sombre but hopeful ending and then the afterword just railed in on cronyism, which wasn't relevant to the topic (albeit related to it).