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IT company Infosys “does not see any impact on delivery or services” from its Moscow operations as a result of UK sanctions.
Good news for its £500m investor chancellor Rishi Sunak’s wife!

Full story in the new Private Eye
 
Imagine being a Conservative MP and having to go out on the news shows and defend the Boris' Ukraine/Brexit remarks.
No wonder Rishi Sunak looks uncomfortable.
 
Every word of it was planned.
He knew it would cause the maximum offense amongst the "woke" and would get another pat on the head from those who support him.

And as for reaction on the 'world stage' He doesn't give a toss. At the moment he is unassailable and he knows it. He's got 2 years before an election Covidgate and Partygate are fading and he's the international 'man of action'
He's got his Churchill Moment.
 
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Boris told his Blackpool cronies that "Labour would raise a white flag to Putin"

Bold words for a party awash with Russian donations and from a man at a fundraiser attended by a Russian donor on the day Russia invaded Ukraine.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Every word of it was planned.
He knew it would cause the maximum offense amongst the "woke" and would get another pat on the head from those who support him.

And as for reaction on the 'world stage' He doesn't give a toss. At the moment he is unassailable and he knows it. He's got 2 years before an election Covidgate and Partygate are fading and he's the international 'man of action'
He's got his Churchill Moment.
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Seven years is just too damn long between elections.
 
Alexander Stubb, Former Prime-, Finance- & Foreign Minister of Finland tweeted

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This idea about ”Global Britain” is as true as ”Peaceful Russia”. Simply utter rubbish, to put it diplomatically. To claim that ⁦@BorisJohnson⁩ ”has taken a lead globally in standing up to Putin” is an illusion only possible in #Brexit la la land
 
dudalb said:
I still prefer the American set elections then the way the British do it.
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People tend to be comfortable with the system they grow up knowing.

The ability to call a snap election has both positive and negative aspects IMO. On the one hand, it gives the opposition - if they have enough support - the opportunity to get rid of an unpopular government and/or the ability for either party to address situation like that in the US Senate at the moment where neither party has a workable majority which results in almost complete inaction. On the other, it allows the ruling party to "game" the system by calling an election when they are enjoying a spike in popularity.

There has been a move in the UK to have fixed term parliaments but to retain the ability to call an exceptional election should the need arise. IMO that's a reasonable compromise.
 
Carl Bildt, former Conservative Prime Minister of Sweden tweets:

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This is truly disgraceful. Despicable. Any thought of inviting this man to an ���� summit should be shelved.
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Alex Taylor
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Words fail me that this loathsome man actually just compared the Ukrainian people's current quest for freedom to the UK voting for Brexit

Just when you thought he couldn't sink to new depths ��
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Donald Tusk, former President of EU tweets:

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Donald Tusk, tweeted: "Boris, your words offend Ukrainians, the British and common sense."

Guy Verhofstadt, the former prime minister of Belgium who was the European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator, said the comparison was "insane".
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So instead of uniting everybody against the abominable invasion by Russia of Ukraine, Johnson seeks to divide people. Remainers were 48% of the referendum and recent polls suggest they are now a majority. To suggest that people who preferred to remain in the EU could be likened to oppressors who oppose freedom, has unsurprisingly caused controversy, not withstanding the trite comparison of an opinion poll with an historical atrocity.

Already the government are pushing PR hard that the rising prices and inflation are all to do with sanctions against Russian oil, to disguise the hardship caused by Brexit.
 
Vixen said:
Carl Bildt, former Conservative Prime Minister of Sweden tweets:

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Donald Tusk, former President of EU tweets:

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So instead of uniting everybody against the abominable invasion by Russia of Ukraine, Johnson seeks to divide people. Remainers were 48% of the referendum and recent polls suggest they are now a majority. To suggest that people who preferred to remain in the EU could be likened to oppressors who oppose freedom, has unsurprisingly caused controversy, not withstanding the trite comparison of an opinion poll with an historical atrocity.

Already the government are pushing PR hard that the rising prices and inflation are all to do with sanctions against Russian oil, to disguise the hardship caused by Brexit.
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Boris Johnson only cares about keeping his position as Prime Minister. This in turn is dependent on keeping in the good graces of the party faithful and, as a result, the parliamentary party.

Portraying themselves as plucky Brexiteers fighting EU oppression in the same way as Ukraine is fighting for their existence reassures the "gammons" that they're on the right side of history and that they're engaging in a virtuous fight for freedom as opposed to merely cutting off their nose to spite their face.

It's abundantly apparent that the EU, US and the rest of NATO consider the UK to be a bit of a joke. I cannot see that situation changing any time soon. :(
 
Long thread by Joylon Maugham

https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1505817365904244739

More dodgy PPE deals.


Jo Maugham
@JolyonMaugham
I’ve written before about how a company with connections to Number 10, Priti Patel, and Matt Hancock came to win a £100m facemask contract at superhigh prices – but we’ve had a further disturbing leak. ��
8:03 AM · Mar 21, 2022·Twitter Web App
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More than twice the unit price of competing suppliers offering identical product. Worth a read.
 
The Don said:
There has been a move in the UK to have fixed term parliaments but to retain the ability to call an exceptional election should the need arise. IMO that's a reasonable compromise.
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Well, that's what was introduced in 2011, but the then government got around it in 2019, and the current government is committed to abolishing fixed term parliaments and returning to the status quo ante.
 
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