One critic on the left described privatisation as 'the biggest electoral bribe in history'.

"An even longer waiting list, higher prices, and bigger bribes."

No offense intended, but how can we know that one of you can't be gotten to, if the bribe's big enough?

No matter the facts, the winner was often the one who offered the biggest bribe.

"You could as easily have done it for a very big bribe, or taken out a loan."

"Any evidence of the big bribe, I don't have," he said.

So expect investigations to focus on big companies paying out big bribes.

And turned her down when she tried to bribe me with the big bribe.

Some of the biggest bribes involve more than 1 billion US$.

And no doubt big bribes are taken for big favors.