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UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has announced the UK government has sanctioned 386 members of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, who support Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
In 1915, the exhibition buildings at Earls Court were turned into a refugee centre to accommodate up to 2000 refugees from Europe.

I’ve suddenly thought of a use for all those Nightingale hospital beds that must still be in storage somewhere.
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That would be very sensible, but requires them to have existed outside of a DoH or Downing Street press release...Which a few of them may actually have done, but given how many were actually ever used one does wonder...
 
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UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has announced the UK government has sanctioned 386 members of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, who support Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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The 'special licence' for Chelsea FC to carry on operating for now, although no tickets can be sold and games can only be attended by those who already have a ticket, is only until 31 May 2021, so I am not sure if this means that is also the date the sanction comes to an end, or up for 'review', or even if Chelsea is wound up, as it cannot even be sold until a special licence is applied for.

Re other sanctions, including the earlier seven:

The Times has been told that the government will sanction 351 members of the Russian parliament. Legislation making it easier to sanction oligarchs takes effect next week. Ministers believe that the new laws will make it “very difficult” for oligarchs to appeal. They will be barred from claiming damages unless they can prove the government acted in “bad faith”.
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THE TIMES


They are barred from travelling to the UK or doing any business with a British citizen or company. Their assets in the UK will be frozen.


These oligarchs' lawyers tried to make things very difficult, including trying to gag the press from quoting what was said about their clients under parliamentary privilege. Maybe these lawyers should also be referred to the Bar Standards.

Next, the oligarchs' children and various wives and mistresses enjoying the high life in England with expensive schooling and Belgravia mansions, need to also be sanctioned or be made to explain where they got their money from.

We know Abramaovich came from a modest background and it was his friendship with Putin that helped him clean up post-Soviet Union from privatisation of previously collectively-owned enterprises. A hundred years ago Russia was a nation of serfs and suddenly we have a ruling elite swanning around in fancy yachts and buying up £4.4m estates in Knightsbridge. It has to be dirty money.
 
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Captain_Swoop said:
In 1915, the exhibition buildings at Earls Court were turned into a refugee centre to accommodate up to 2000 refugees from Europe.

I’ve suddenly thought of a use for all those Nightingale hospital beds that must still be in storage somewhere.
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You mean a few hundred... Remember the only beds set up were those needed for photo opportunities - the Nightingale hospitals only had a potential capacity in the thousands.
 
Carrot Flower King said:
That would be very sensible, but requires them to have existed outside of a DoH or Downing Street press release...Which a few of them may actually have done, but given how many were actually ever used one does wonder...
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Scurrilous lies! As I say above there were some beds setup - for the photo-opportunities...
 
Vixen said:
The 'special licence' for Chelsea FC to carry on operating for now, although no tickets can be sold and games can only be attended by those who already have a ticket, is only until 31 May 2021, so I am not sure if this means that is also the date the sanction comes to an end, or up for 'review', or even if Chelsea is wound up, as it cannot even be sold until a special licence is applied for.
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That coincides pretty closely with the end of the season (Champions League final is on 28th May).
 
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...amovich-vladimir-putin-chelsea-kremlin-russia

With the erstwhile Chelsea boss sanctioned, many feign surprise at his links to the Kremlin. Oh come on, we’ve been turning a blind eye for years
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But of course, the sovereign wealth fund isn’t the same as the Riyadh government. They just have a good relationship with it, same as Roman Abramovich just has a good relationship with Putin. “Which owner knows the guy who’s killed more babies?” is a question you won’t be seeing on any banners at Chelsea-Newcastle.
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Chris Philp Tory MP for Croydon claimed on the BBC Parliament channel that "The UK brought 25,000 people over from Syria, again more than any other country in Europe"

The city of Berlin alone took in more than four times as many Syrian refugees as the whole of the UK.
 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ng-dulwich-college-gas-them-all-a7185336.html

Dear Nigel,

I won’t give my name – my family isn’t even aware I’m writing this and I wish to protect them. But I have a funny feeling you’ll know who I am.

At school, at Dulwich College in the late Seventies, we were close friends in our teenage years. I stayed at your house once – your mother did do a fantastic great British breakfast for us.
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But I also remember something altogether more alarming: the songs you chanted at school. In her letter Chloe Deakin mentioned reports of you singing Hitler Youth songs, and when you were confronted by that, you denied it.

But I do remember you singing the song starting with the words “gas them all, gas ‘em all, gas them all”. I can’t forget the words. I can’t bring myself to write the rest of it for it is more vile that anything the teachers at Dulwich would ever have been aware of.
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ETA... YES it was 2019.
 
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I presume, without clicking on it, that this is an old story, because that is hardly news.

(I was also at Dulwich College, and it's always been one of the weirdest things thinking that Farage is somehow younger than me, when he's always, always, been an old git.)
 
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Downing Street put the brakes on Home Office initiatives to allow a bigger share of Ukrainians fleeing their homeland to settle in the United Kingdom, Sky News understands.

Sky News was told Number 10 convinced the Home Office to withdraw a "write round" - the formal government procedure used by ministers to seek authorisation from cabinet colleagues for new policies.

Sky News understands that Number 10 played a key role in reining in two initiatives from Ms Patel, which would have opened the system up even further.

Number 10 denied any disagreements and stressed the government was united and working at pace.

Two sources told Sky News that Mr Johnson, his new chief of staff Steve Barclay and Number 10 head of policy Andrew Griffith have been cautious about opening up routes for Ukrainians to come in large numbers without full checks.

"The problem is Number 10 - the PM and Steve Barclay - who are personally slapping this down," said a source.

A Tory source said that some people in Number 10 have been more hardline on migration issues than many expected, and it was unfair that Ms Patel was getting the blame.

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-...s-refugee-offer-sky-news-understands-12563556
 
French President Emmanuel Macron has reportedly criticised the UK government for failing to live up to its "grand statements" on helping Ukrainian refugees.

Speaking at the end an EU summit in Versailles, Macron criticised the UK's visa policy which requires applicants to make them in person in either Brussels or Paris, the Guardian reports.

"Despite all the grand statements... the British government continued to apply current rules that meant they did not welcome Ukrainian refugees who wanted to reach British soil saying they have to travel hundreds of kilometres in order to apply for a visa," it reports him as saying.

"I would hope that the Ukrainian men and women who have lived through horror and crossed Europe to reach their families on UK territory will be better treated."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60717902
 
The "first safe country" gang have gone very quiet recently haven't they?
 
Chris Bryant Labour MP for Rhondda tweeted

@RhonddaBryant
The EU has sanctioned Andrei Melnichenko and Italy has seized his yacht. He was one of the oligarchs summoned recently by Putin.
@trussliz guaranteed £50.94 million of credit for Melnichenko's company Suek and has failed to sanction him. Why?
 
Chelsea and Newcastle United are about to play football.

As someone tweeted, a 'festival of human blood'
 
This leaflet is given out by the authorities at Zosin crossing to ���� arrivals: “You will receive a hot meal, drink and accommodation…don’t worry about the formalities. Your further stay in Poland will be legal. You don’t have to submit any applications in the coming days.”

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https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1502296706049789961
 
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