This illicit funding of political parties inevitably concentrates a lot of money and resources at the hands of bigger political parties, strangling smaller political parties to scrap for survival. It also puts a price on our democracy and those with the deepest pockets are able to buy off leaders as it happens with the ruling party. Our democracy ceases then to be the will of the people, to be the government of the people by the people. It becomes a legitimised robbery of the will of the people by corrupt politicians and business people.