privatisation of democracy

 “And then you get these registered promoters who can start to outspend political parties or outmanoeuvre political parties, and what they’re trying to do is kind of construct a very different type of political will – which is a political will tailored to, generally, the economic interests of their supporters. Sometimes it’s the ideological interests of their supporters.

“But either way, it’s unaccountable, and it’s opaque. The label I would put on all this stuff is privatisation of democracy.”