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Yvette Cooper told BBC Radio 4's Today programme:
"At the moment, what the Home Office is doing is trying to just tweak the existing system.
They're trying to carry on with a version of business as usual, with a version of asking people to apply for traditional work visas or traditional visitor visas or traditional family visas that are still narrowly drawn."

Dominic Raab told Today that Ms Cooper's comments "didn't make any sense at all. On the one hand Labour wanted us to move quickly, which the home secretary has done.
On the other hand they wanted us to set up something new from scratch. Those two things rub against each other, I'm afraid."

"in conflict zones around the world first and foremost, most people want to stay in their home country".
 
UK will accept Ukrainian refugees "in considerable numbers."
How many?
When?
Give us a date.
For once in your life Boris, give us some facts.
 
Patel will this afternoon confirm that adult parents, grandparents, children over 18 and siblings of Ukrainians settled in the UK will be allowed entry

Every single time they have to be leaned on to do the right thing and always they trot out the usual ‘we’re leading the world’ bollocks.
It’s exhausting.

A letter to the PM signed by 44 Tory moderates calls for a more generous scheme: "Ukrainian victims of war seeking refuge are welcome"

They want Ukrainians without relatives in the UK to be granted entry and for longer than the end of the year that a current visa will allow.
 
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John Redwood tweets

@johnredwood
Some in government tell me if we produce more of our own gas it will still be dear at world prices. They should look to see how US gas is only one sixth of the price of gas in the EU thanks to their domestic production, pipes and contracts.

Redwood forgets that we don’t own our gas, his party sold the rights to it.
The people that do own it export 80% of it, at great profit.
 
In the House of Commons, Tory MP for Gainsborough, Sir Edward Leigh says Lincolnshire is too full for Ukrainians

He says in Lincolnshire "we've done our bit with migration from Eastern Europe"

“Everybody wants to be humanitarian and she’s under pressure to have a visa-free scheme like the rest of Europe, but may I actually congratulate her on her proportionate response.
I think we have to remember that, unlike the rest of Europe, we have uniquely liberal labour laws and we speak English, so we are the country of choice for mass immigration,.
and therefore I do urge her to, as well as listen to all the humanitarian voices, to listen to the voices of people in Lincolnshire, who feel we’ve done our bit in terms of migration from eastern Europe. We’re under extreme pressure in terms of housing and jobs.
I know this is difficult to say, but we have to be honest about this. And therefore may I be a correcting voice on this and congratulate her on her humanitarian but proportionate response and not throwing away the immigration rulebook.”

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https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1498697473216421893
 
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Priti Patel says she would offer a security briefing to the opposition but she is "very sceptical of how they treat and respect security advice."

A reminder that Patel was previously sacked from government after holding unauthorised meetings with a foreign government.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
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Dominic Raab told Today that Ms Cooper's comments "didn't make any sense at all. On the one hand Labour wanted us to move quickly, which the home secretary has done.
On the other hand they wanted us to set up something new from scratch. Those two things rub against each other, I'm afraid."

"in conflict zones around the world first and foremost, most people want to stay in their home country".
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Does poor Dom ever have 'two things rub against each other' in his head, one wonders.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
In the House of Commons, Tory MP for Gainsborough, Sir Edward Leigh says Lincolnshire is too full for Ukrainians

He says in Lincolnshire "we've done our bit with migration from Eastern Europe"

“Everybody wants to be humanitarian and she’s under pressure to have a visa-free scheme like the rest of Europe, but may I actually congratulate her on her proportionate response.
I think we have to remember that, unlike the rest of Europe, we have uniquely liberal labour laws and we speak English, so we are the country of choice for mass immigration,.
and therefore I do urge her to, as well as listen to all the humanitarian voices, to listen to the voices of people in Lincolnshire, who feel we’ve done our bit in terms of migration from eastern Europe. We’re under extreme pressure in terms of housing and jobs.
I know this is difficult to say, but we have to be honest about this. And therefore may I be a correcting voice on this and congratulate her on her humanitarian but proportionate response and not throwing away the immigration rulebook.”

Video in link
https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1498697473216421893
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Ah. Poor put-upon Priti. No wonder she lost her rag and viciously told that leftie woman to 'Shut up, you cow'; goin' on about lettin' people in.

'There might be people posin' as Ukrainians when they are really Russian terrorists in disguise'.

We-eel. How else can she put it? No offence but...
 
Russia’s second largest bank, VTB, has been granted a 30-day exemption for clients to close transactions and move assets by UK Government.

Boris announced last Thursday that the state-owned VTB Bank, which is the second-largest Russian bank and its largest investment bank, was the subject of a “full and immediate” asset freeze in the UK

But the Treasury unit in charge of enforcing the UK’s sanctions quietly issued a 30-day licence granting permission for any individual or entity to “wind down any transactions” with VTB until 27 March.
 
How the UK government have become Russian Assets. Investigative journalist, Carole Cadwalladr believes that the Conservative Party was deliberately 'bought' by Putin in his plan going back years to make various western influences 'partners'. She is currently being sued by Arron Banks - behind the Vote Leave - for libel. Whilst he is clearly throwing money at wearing her down OTOH maybe she is slightly getting carried away with the idea that the UK government is part of the plan to invade Ukraine to get it onside or knowingly or unwittingly being Kremlin 'assets' (polite word for 'traitors to the UK') in exchange for vast sums of money (= aka bribery). Certainly, they have been compromised and embarrassed by the revelations, and this prevents them taking decisive action or from sounding sincere in their condemnation of Russia in the conflict.

Abramovich, Russian owner of Chelsea FC, also owned shares in some Russian steelworks, which apparently, according to news, he transferred over to himself some six days before Russia invaded. This makes Rees-Mogg's own transfer of £44m shares out of a Russian bank ahead of the war, also eyebrow raising.

This is an interesting article that appears in today/s Finnish newspapers, originally from the Financial Times.

It is estimated that about 30 percent of the country is still owned by aristocrats. In fact, the figure may be closer to 50 per cent, as much of the land is not publicly known because it has not been bought or sold for a long time - these are probably also owned by aristocrats centuries ago. In practice, around 25,000 rich people own half of Britain. Ordinary middle-class people own a total of only five percent.

To understand the twists and turns of British politics, it is worth remembering how outrageously unequal a country Britain is. The companies own about 18 percent and it will be interesting to see how their interests intertwine with the Conservative Party. The three largest donors to the Conservative Party are in the land ownership, real estate and construction sectors. The next largest stake - about 17 per cent of Britain’s land area - is owned by wealthy bankers and foreign oligarchs, including the Russians, who have invested heavily in the property here.

It is now exciting to see if Britain can really impose sanctions on them. Everything that is clearly in the eyes of the people - such as the Chelsea football club owned by Roman Abramovich - is already to blame. But in addition to Abramovich, there are many oligarchs that keep a lower profile. They own land and businesses here, and roam the political elite. A few cases have risen to prominence, such as the wife of Lubov Chernukh, Putin’s former finance minister Vladimir Chernukhin, who paid £ 45,000 for a tennis match with Johnson in 2020 and has donated more than £ 1.6m to the Conservative Party over the years. But I would guess that most appointments and remittances are handled much more discreetly. Ordinary people don't notice them much. In a bit of the same style as wondering why there is such a severe housing shortage in this country, but not to mention how one percent owns 50 percent of the land.

In the coming weeks, one will surely wonder why Britain is slowly acting against the oligarchs. Or why make a big number out of a few - while others go on with their lives without disturbing anything. Political theatre is well known in Britain, but now it is not worth watching the stage just to follow the strings. The author is a journalist for the Financial Times in London.
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google translated back into English
 
Michael Fabricant tweets

@Mike_Fabricant
While other countries hesitated, the #UK has been sending a steady stream of arms including tank-busting missiles to #Ukraine for weeks. And we are sending more.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Michael Fabricant tweets

@Mike_Fabricant
While other countries hesitated, the #UK has been sending a steady stream of arms including tank-busting missiles to #Ukraine for weeks. And we are sending more.
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Hmmm... one does have to wonder if it is the Ukraines we are providing arms to or the Russians in Ukraine...
 
The government has not seized any oligarch assets and is now allowing sanctioned Russian banks 30 days to put their affairs in order.
What the **** is going on?
 
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