[user104658]

Jet your position seems to be arguing that bribery is OK so long as the bribe money is then "spent on good things". At some point you're going to have to accept that not everyone feels that way. A bribe / extortion is immoral in politics no matter what it's spent on, in the opinion of many, so constantly arguing that it's all good because it will be spent in good ways for NI is going to prove fruitless for you. It isn't that people aren't hearing you or that they don't understand that. It's that it's irrelevant. Whether they spend it on mustard gas or a cancer cure for kittens, is totally besides the point when it comes to discussing the morality of bribery in the first place, or whether a government spending money on bribes is justifiable.