At the risk of hyperbole: Lobbying is a catalyst for the destruction of democracy, and should be cut and cauterised from our civilization like the cancer that it is.
Anybody running on the platform of diminishing the corporate voice to its legitimate, proportional volume would certainly have my vote.
Whether or not piracy is morally excusable, I am certain this form of legislation is not what the British public wants.
>Lobbying is a catalyst for the destruction of democracy //
As anyone is allowed to lobby I don't think this is true. In our representative "democracy" though it doesn't seem that MPs are required to act in a representative way. That, IMO, is what destroys the idea of democracy.
If a company lobbies an MP it shouldn't make any difference. It should be the people of the MP's constituency that the company needs to lobby so that they can alter the opinions of the people that the MP is supposed to be representing.
Anybody running on the platform of diminishing the corporate voice to its legitimate, proportional volume would certainly have my vote.
Whether or not piracy is morally excusable, I am certain this form of legislation is not what the British public wants.