Money seeks a bedfellow and we need to know who’s sleeping with who

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a political party to wed. 

I’m sure that’s what Ms Austen meant to write and never was a truer word spoken. Mr Darcy and Ms Bennett be damned, the real love story is between your favourite political party and their biggest donor. 

To paraphrase Ms Austen, what good is money if it is not earning you even greater dividends, whether in matrimony or politics?

The Regency setting of Pride and Prejudice...