alt Hacker News> Cool story, lobbying is corruption
These kind of down putting responses make everyone worse.
> paying for a 3 star restaurant for an MEP
Like I said, that's corruption in lobbying, not lobbying. Lobbying is the ability to talk to government officials.
I think that you're arguing against something different. Visiting your MP at their surgery or lobbying them at their office in the house of commons is not the same thing as buying them two and a half grands worth of spectacle frames.