Discussion on Political Sponsorship Transparency

So what's your take?

Politicians should wear who sponsors them all over their clothes.

100% agree.

George Carlin made a joke about this.

Oh, this is a George Carlin joke?

Yeah, yeah. But it shouldn't be a joke.

Yeah, he made it a joke, but it should be real.

Yeah. You have politicians on TV who are, like, repping for oil and gas companies-

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... arms trade companies, gambling companies-

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... private healthcare companies.

There should be, like, a ticker above the screen says, "This

is who sponsors him."

A ticker tape while you're on TV.

Yeah.

And it says funded by-

Oil and gas

... arms trade-

Private healthcare

... even the Tube is telling us who's

sponsoring it.

Right.

Movies, television. Even in my business when I do an ad

for a company, I have to disclose that it's an ad.

Right.

Literally, I have to put hashtag ad, and I have to tag the sponsor.

I could be sat here right now sponsoring the Tube, and you wouldn't know about it.

I know, but that-

I'm not, by the way.

No, it's crazy 'cause you don't know what

you're voting for

if you don't know where the money's coming from.

Right.

So I might see a candidate who's saying all of the right things, but then I look

into the funders, and all of a sudden I'm like, "Oh,

he's obviously lying

to get the vote."

I'm gonna get even more wild. I don't think politicians should be taking

dirty

money anyway. I think they should be funded by regular

members, which is the Green

Party, by the way, just in case anyone on the Tube needed to

know that.

No, it's, it's true. That is literally one of the biggest things

that's wrong

with Western society-

Right

... is that corporate-sponsored lobbyist money

has infiltrated

politics. I actually think that is what destroyed democracy.

100% agree. Sorry, that's your job.

So how are you funded?

95% by regular donations from members.

Oh, incredible.

So that means we take, like, fivers, tenners, or maybe even more, and what that

means is we're free not to take money from dirty money or big corporations.

People say I talk fast, and one of the reasons why I talk fast

is I don't have to

second-think what I'm thinking about because I'm not thinking about who paid me

to

say it.

Yeah.

I'm just saying what I think.

Footballers, they wear the sponsors.

But I don't want politicians running around in shorts.

100% agree. No politicians in shorts.

Right.

You know, you're showing up for the people.

You gotta wear a suit.

Without a tie.

I think you can wear a tie.

No, no, no. We need a new take.

No tie.

No one should ever be wearing a tie any time ever.

Maybe it's a tie with all the logos.

Okay. That's one tie people can wear.