Wouldn't it be nice if you could club together with your mates, raise a bit of cash, and then donate it to your MP to encourage her to vote the right way? Perhaps your MP has done something you really like - why not join up with other like minded individuals and get them a lovely gift basket? Introducing KickbackStarter - the entirely fictitious crowd sourcing website which puts your in touch with your MP's wallet. This satirical presentation was given at OpenTech 2013.

1. Legal Disclaimer
● By attending this talk you agree to indemnify
the speaker against any and all legal torts and
● “Class is fundamentally unattainable,” says Sontag; however, according to von Junz[1] , it is not so much class that is
fundamentally unattainable, but rather the meaninglessness, and subsequent rubicon, of class. In a sense, the characteristic
theme of Long’s[2] model of neotextual desublimation is a dialectic totality.
● Lacan uses the term ‘subcapitalist materialism’ to denote the role of the observer as artist. Therefore, in Mallrats, Smith reiterates
Sartreist existentialism; in Chasing Amy he examines Baudrillardist simulation.
● If dialectic nationalism holds, we have to choose between precultural feminism and Derridaist reading. Thus, the absurdity of
neomodernist socialism depicted in Smith’s Clerks is also evident in Mallrats.
● 2. Smith and subcapitalist materialism
●
The main theme of the works of Smith is the futility, and hence the genre, of textual society. The primary theme of
Hamburger’s[3] analysis of subcapitalist discourse is the role of the writer as reader. It could be said that in Clerks, Smith affirms
subcapitalist materialism; in Chasing Amy, although, he denies precultural feminism.
●
“Class is meaningless,” says Sartre. Foucault uses the term ‘Baudrillardist simulation’ to denote not theory, as the structural
paradigm of discourse suggests, but posttheory. In a sense, Sartre suggests the use of subcapitalist materialism to analyse art.
● Debord uses the term ‘neotextual dialectic theory’ to denote the failure, and some would say the collapse, of prematerial sexual
identity. It could be said that the premise of precultural feminism states that language is capable of significance.
● The subject is contextualised into a Baudrillardist simulation that includes art as a whole. However, Marx uses the term
‘precultural feminism’ to denote the common ground between class and sexual identity.
● Any number of narratives concerning not, in fact, theory, but neotheory exist. It could be said that the feminine/masculine
distinction which is a central theme of Smith’s Mallrats emerges again in Chasing Amy, although in a more self-justifying sense.

2. First – A Quiz!

4. Cash For Questions
TV's Neil Hamilton
&
Mohammed “Al” Fayed
● Paid £2000 per question.
● A six-day stay at the Ritz hotel in Paris for Mr and Mrs
Hamilton, which included £2,120 extras
● Four Harrods gift vouchers
● A stay in a Scottish castle
● A weekend in a Paris apartment
● http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/525981.stm

6. Bernie Ecclestone
Donation of £1 million to Labour in
January 1997.
After election in May 1997, Labour
ban all sports sponsorship by
tobacco companies.
In November 1997 proposed that
Formula One be exempted.
Tony Blair's
“a pretty straight sort of guy.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/3562753/Bernie-Ecclestone-and-Tony-Blair-a-truth-revealed-10-years-too-late.html

8. Bahrain Gift Baskets
● £200 - £500 gift baskets
from Fortnum & Mason
● Ann Clwyd MP returned hers.
● Conor Burns MP given
£3,279 trip.
● Prime Minister given
jewellery.
● Bahrain's King Hamad Al-
Khalifa Invited to dine with
the Queen. Approved by
Foreign Secretary

10. “Sponsor” Staff
● Philippa Stroud
● The work and
pensions secretary
Iain Duncan Smith's
longest-serving
adviser.
● Paid a salary by the
“Think Tank” Centre
for Social Justice.
http://guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/nov/05/iain-duncan-smith-adviser-lobbying

12. John Nash
● John Nash, the chairman of
Care UK, gave £21,000 to
fund Andrew Lansley’s
personal office.
● Mr Nash, a private equity
tycoon, also manages
several other businesses
providing services to the
NHS and stands to be one
of the biggest beneficiaries
of Conservative policies to
increase the use of private
health providers.
● Raised to the peerage as
Baron Nash, in 2013
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6989408/Andrew-Lansley-bankrolled-by-private-healthcare-provider.html

13. What A Tangled Web We Weave

14. Petitions Don't Work
● £90,000 raised by
38degrees to run
opinion poll & place
adverts in the
national press.
http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/2011/05/25/nhs-ads-lansley-has-his-fingers-in-his-ears/

16. It's Time To Take Matters Into Our
Own Hands
KickbackStarter
will “encourage” MPs
to behave the way
we want them to.

17. Club together for a nice gift?
If your MP votes the “right” way – let them know and
buy them a Harrods Luxury Hamper.
Perhaps tell them your intentions in advance?

18. Is This Legal?
● http://www.justice.gov.uk/legislation/bribery
● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery_Act_2010

19. Will Anyone Care?

20. To Recap
● Sponsoring an MP's office – legal.
● Paying for staffing costs – legal.
● Sending gift baskets – legal.
● Donating large sums to a party – legal.
● Paying for peerages – no prosecutions.
● So why not crowd source contributions to
our MPs?

23. Thank You
With thanks to Alex Blandford for the name, and
the attendees of #OpenTech 2013 for laughing.