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Liz Truss tweeted
@trussliz
United Kingdom government official
We need ironclad unity among allies in support of Ukraine. I joined EU FAC today where we agreed with Canada US Ukraine that Putin must fail in Ukraine and that we will continue to use sanctions to debilitate the Russia economy and war machine. We all stand with @dmytrokuleba and Ukraine.
 
Seems it all still comes back to the EU and Brexit for some of them.

Tom Harwood, Political Correspondent & Presenter at GB News tweeted in a series of tweets:

@tomhfh
This is the phenomenon we saw a lot during Brexit negotiations:
Where commentators would take every word of EU Commission as gospel, while being simultaneously highly suspicious of everything the British government said.

@tomhfh

If a UK minister claims something about our response speed, journalists & commentators rightly interrogate it.

@tomhfh

Yet when an EU politician like Frans Timmermans claim that his government/s moved faster - it’s too often not interrogated and just repeated as if it’s impartial fact.
This crisis shows that in the face of an increasingly uncertain world, Western unity matters more than European unity.

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edited to comply with recent clarifications when quoting multiple texts/tweets, etc
 
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Four years ago, as foreign secretary Boris promised more “unexplained wealth orders” freezing Russian oligarchs’ assets. Since then there hasn't been a single 'unexplained wealth order' enacted. In same period 92 “golden visas” were issued to Russians.
 
I said yesterday the money behind Brexit seemed to be shifting to 'Net Zero'
Then today Farage tweets this!

@Nigel_Farage
I am launching a new campaign to kill of Boris Johnson’s ruinous green agenda.
We demand a referendum on Net Zero.
Read all about it in the Mail on Sunday.
 
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Captain_Swoop said:
I said yesterday the money behind Brexit seemed to be shifting to 'Net Zero'
Then today Farage tweets this!

@Nigel_Farage
I am launching a new campaign to kill of Boris Johnson’s ruinous green agenda.
We demand a referendum on Net Zero.
Read all about it in the Mail on Sunday.
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And sure enough, Mail On Sunday features a picture of Farage captioned "Back in Business" along with a picture of his Brexit crony Tice, and those exact words as the headline for a full page feature including links to other pages featuring "Get Fracking MPs tell Boris pages 26-27" and "Farage on Net Zero Zealots page 29"
 
We had a referendum on Net Zero in 2019 - it was called a General Election.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Four years ago, as foreign secretary Boris promised more “unexplained wealth orders” freezing Russian oligarchs’ assets. Since then there hasn't been a single 'unexplained wealth order' enacted. In same period 92 “golden visas” were issued to Russians.
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Hardly surprising - the Tories know where this wealth has come from, hard for them to then prosecute folk for it being unexplained!

Seriously with the the golden visas and the like I would not be surprised if a legal argument could be made that you can’t be subject to both.
 
According to the Mail On Sunday Boris has a "six-point plan" to defeat Putin and this is his "Falklands Moment".
Whatever that is supposed to mean.

Apparently he has turned from a "beleaguered leader into an international statesman" and that this is transforming his leadership.
 
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Like asking Bertie Wooster to coordinate Dunkirk as someone commented.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
According to the Mail On Sunday Boris has a "six-point plan" to defeat Putin and this is his "Falklands Moment".
Whatever that is supposed to mean.

Apparently he has turned from a "beleaguered leader into an international statesman" and that this is transforming his leadership.
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Wow, Boris has a plan!? Is it something like this:

1. Throw party to celebrate the public's attention being diverted from my partying during lockdown.
2. Do more brilliant impressions of Churchill.
3. Do lots of photos with military people and hardware in the background.
4. Tell the British public about very important meetings I'm having with Biden and EU leaders.
5a. Blame Ras-Putin for all that's wrong with the UK.
5b. Mention the bestest fastest vaccine rollout ever!
6. Win the next general election!
 
Dominic Raab on Sky saying we can't sanction the Russian defence minister because we haven't yet seen the evidence against him.

Phillips - The Russian defence minister has been sanctioned by the EU & US & 11 days after the invasion he's still not sanctioned by the UK?

Raab - This needs to be done on the evidence

Phillips - 11 days... so the EU & US are breaching legal sanction rules?

This is the Russian Defence Minister we are talking about!
Do Lavrov and Putin have assets in the UK? The UK imposed sanctions on them on 25 February. What is the difference with the Russian Defence Minister.
Either Raab does not know what he is talking about or something extremely worrying is going on.
 
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Ivor the Engineer said:
Wow, Boris has a plan!? Is it something like this:

1. Throw party to celebrate the public's attention being diverted from my partying during lockdown.
2. Do more brilliant impressions of Churchill.
3. Do lots of photos with military people and hardware in the background.
4. Tell the British public about very important meetings I'm having with Biden and EU leaders.
5a. Blame Ras-Putin for all that's wrong with the UK.
5b. Mention the bestest fastest vaccine rollout ever!
6. Win the next general election!
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I think one step must involve knighting Putin.
 
Ivor the Engineer said:
Wow, Boris has a plan!? Is it something like this:

1. Throw party to celebrate the public's attention being diverted from my partying during lockdown.
2. Do more brilliant impressions of Churchill.
3. Do lots of photos with military people and hardware in the background.
4. Tell the British public about very important meetings I'm having with Biden and EU leaders.
5a. Blame Ras-Putin for all that's wrong with the UK.
5b. Mention the bestest fastest vaccine rollout ever!
6. Win the next general election!
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1. Transfer money.
2. Learn Russian for ‘don’t send any money just now’.
3. Doorstep clap for Ukrainians.
4. Send Liz Truss over permanently.
5. Buy blue/yellow tinted bulbs for cheese & wine party.
6. Clear fridge out.
 
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Either Raab does not know what he is talking about or something extremely worrying is going on.
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Nope, either Raab does not know what he is talking about or something extremely worrying is going on and Raab does not know what he is talking about.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Dominic Raab on Sky saying we can't sanction the Russian defence minister because we haven't yet seen the evidence against him.

Phillips - The Russian defence minister has been sanctioned by the EU & US & 11 days after the invasion he's still not sanctioned by the UK?

Raab - This needs to be done on the evidence

Phillips - 11 days... so the EU & US are breaching legal sanction rules?

This is the Russian Defence Minister we are talking about!
Do Lavrov and Putin have assets in the UK? The UK imposed sanctions on them on 25 February. What is the difference with the Russian Defence Minister.
Either Raab does not know what he is talking about or something extremely worrying is going on.
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False dichotomy!
 
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