Since we left the EU, the pet passport scheme isn't operating any more....
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Since we left the EU, the pet passport scheme isn't operating any more....
Allowing Tory donors to repatriate their assets.
That was my first thought too.
THE WHOLE POINT ABOUT FREEZING ASSETS IS PREVENTING THEM BEING MOVED OUT OF REACH
Only if your priority is actually implementing sanctions as opposed to just generating positive headlines.
But of course.
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Tory MP Mark Harper suggests we can’t let in Ukrainian refugees freely as they’ll be infiltrated with Russian agents.
BBC Politics video in link.
https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1498993052714680326
BBC Politics video in link.
https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1498993052714680326
P.J. Denyer
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I think that would violate biological warfare statutes.
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My mistake, nothing biological about that abomination.
Or it's wig.
P.J. Denyer
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Got to love the idea that Russians would send in spies disguised as penniless asylum seekers rather than, of the top of my head, multimillionaires who can get fast track visas, preferential access to ministers & play tennis with the PM...The
"No comrade, forget Downing Street, Putin wants to know what secrets are held in a cut price Norfolk bed & breakfast".
"No comrade, forget Downing Street, Putin wants to know what secrets are held in a cut price Norfolk bed & breakfast".
I was going to ask the stupid question of why the UK press isn't making more of Russian access to the highest levels in the Tory Party and the UK dragging its heels over the implementation of sanctions - but then I looked at who owns most of the UK press.
Russian oligarchs have been given plenty of time to get their money out of the UK (or hide it) in an orderly fashion. I think the US and EU should name and shame the UK and penalise the UK for failing to implement sanctions.
I was going to ask the stupid question of why the UK press isn't making more of Russian access to the highest levels in the Tory Party and the UK dragging its heels over the implementation of sanctions - but then I looked at who owns most of the UK press.
Russian oligarchs have been given plenty of time to get their money out of the UK (or hide it) in an orderly fashion. I think the US and EU should name and shame the UK and penalise the UK for failing to implement sanctions.
I wonder if we are the only country doing this - I doubt it.
P.J. Denyer
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Don't knock Britain. We're World Leading™ in allowing dirty kleptocrat money to influence our politics.
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Stephen Glover in the Daily Mail writes:
"This crisis has shown how independent Britain wields far MORE influence now we've left the EU."
I hadn't appreciated that a million refugees and Ukrainian cities in smoke and rubble had the upside of demonstrating the wonderfulness of Brexit.
Just think, if we hadn't left the EU we wouldn't have been able to defer sanctions on Russian banks for 30 days and stop refugees coming in.
"This crisis has shown how independent Britain wields far MORE influence now we've left the EU."
I hadn't appreciated that a million refugees and Ukrainian cities in smoke and rubble had the upside of demonstrating the wonderfulness of Brexit.
Just think, if we hadn't left the EU we wouldn't have been able to defer sanctions on Russian banks for 30 days and stop refugees coming in.
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MarkCorrigan
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I wonder what colour the sky is on his planet?
Red, white and blue
Of course rubbish like this goes largely unchallenged because to do so would be to "politicise a crisis". It's a very toxic form of propaganda because it reinforces what people want to believe and moves us father away from the truth.
In truth the UK waited to see what the US and EU planned, announced doing bare minimum to not appear to be out of step and since then has dragged its feet to avoid actually having to do anything.
It's an odd form of "leadership".
Boris Johnson lying ?
Say it isn't so
edited to add.....
I also wonder if these are actual sanctions applied, or announcement that sanctions may be applied in 30 days or so.
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Mojo
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60591547
Boris’s claim, of course, was that they’d sanctioned “275 individuals already, a further 100 last week”. Maybe he was counting the individual employees.
Red, white and blue
White, blue and red, surely?
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