Politicians should wear who sponsors them all over their clothes. (📍London) @ZackPolanskiGreen
Created/Produced by Kareem Rahma (@kareem) and Andrew Kuo (@akuoproject)
Summary
Kareem meets Zack Polanski Green, a Green Party politician in London, who argues politicians should display their sponsors on their clothes like footballers do. It's actually a George Carlin joke. But Zack insists it should be real policy. He explains that 95% of Green Party funding comes from small donations from regular members, which lets him speak freely without worrying about corporate interests. The two agree that corporate lobbying has basically destroyed democracy, and they wrap up debating whether politicians in sponsor covered ties would be acceptable.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? Politicians should wear who sponsors them all over their clothes.
100% agree. George Carlin made a joke about this.
Oh, this is a George Carlin joke. Yeah. Yeah, but it shouldn't be a joke.
Yeah, he made it a joke, but it should be real. Yeah. You have politicians on TV who are like repping for oil and gas companies, arm trade companies, gambling companies, private healthcare companies. There should be like a ticker above screen says this is who sponsors.
A ticker tape while you're on TV and it says funded by oil and gas strike private healthcare. Even the tube is telling us who's sponsoring it. Movies, television. Even in my business, when I do an ad for a company, I have to disclose that it's an ad. Literally, I have to put # ad and I have to tag the sponsor. I could be sat here right now sponsoring the tube and you wouldn't know about it.
I know, but I'm not, by the way.
No, it's crazy cuz you don't know what you're voting for if you don't know where the money's coming from. So, I might see a candidate who's saying all of the right things, but then I look into the funders and all of a sudden I'm like, "Oh, he's obviously lying to get the vote." I'm going to get even more wild. I don't think politicians should be taking dirty money anyway. I think they should be funded by regular members, which is the Green Party, by the way, just in case anyone on the tube needed to know that.
No, it's it's true. That is literally one of the biggest things that's wrong with Western society, is that corporate sponsored lobbyist money has infiltrated politics. I actually think that is what destroyed democracy. 100% agreed. Sorry, that's your job.
So, how are you funded? 95% by regular donations from members. So, that means we take like fers, teners, or maybe even more. And what that means is we're free not to take money from dirty money or big corporations. People say I talk fast. And one of the reasons why I talk fast is I don't have to second think what I'm thinking about because I'm not thinking about who paid me to say it. I'm just saying what I think.
Footballers, they were the sponsors. But I don't want politicians running around in shorts.
100% agree. No politicians in shorts, right? You know, you're showing up for the people. You got to wear a suit without a tie.
I think you can wear a tie. No, no, no. We need a new take. No one should ever be wearing a tie anytime ever.
Maybe it's a tie with all the logos. Okay, that's one tie people can wear.
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