No it's not it's buying votes, but nothing will ever change because every party benefits from funding from large donors. and none of them are going to bite the hands that feed. And donors are going to keep getting rewarded for doing so see for example Andy Burnham accepting a donation from Lord Sainsbury and a few months later announcing a policy where a huge chunk of unemployed youths are going to work for free in Sainsbury's stores, and that's not even the worst example of political corruption compared to the things the last tory government did.
We need massive reforms and actual enforcement of the rules that are already in place that would make behaviour like this cease to exist.
