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With the Leave campaign funding it seems like the law certainly wasn't sufficient. Loopholes were utilised 'not in the spirit' and possibly with massive effect.
I totally think UK politics is vulnerable to manipulation. Our laws are pretty quaint.
In the US it is quite normal for individual politicians to take private funding. That corruption is absolute cancer, it produces on-message but totally disingenuous puppets and then anti-puppet muppets like Trump. All the campaign 'products' are going to be developed for this political culture (the largest market).
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miro_o
Well that's the snag for me: Was this sophisticated marketing or a breach of UK electoral law (outside cash / influence)
The jury us still out on that. If course everyone is free to use the same legal (though obtrusive perhaps) marketing techniques.