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I don’t think one dinner would be enough to change my vote on anything unless you’ve got one hell of an argument. If MPs were that cheap, I think their constituents would gladly buy them a meal.
It’s the money.
In the US, there’s congressmen who’ve been bought for less than 6-figures
What if it’s Taco Bell?
Well, why didn’t you say?
I read “dinner” as “negotiating the bribe”