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by kalleboo 1543 days ago
My experiences are mostly from other countries but it seems whenever the government sells something off it's always sold way under value...
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Isnt this how oligarchs are created - buying state owned assets at massively knocked down prices from their friends in government?

If you donate 20k to the party you can have yourself a multi billion pound media empire and a knighthood all of your own.

See Evgeny Lebedev. I imagine the odds on him being the successful bidder for Channel 4 are extremely slim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev