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That £37bn wasted on test and trace would’ve come in very handy right about now.
 
Jonathan Pie on Russian Money



Invective supported by facts
 
The Telegraph Newspaper is estimated "to have recieved many millions" from the Russian State News Agency - RIA Novosti - to run Russia reports from 2007 onwards.

Various media outlets such as the Guardian & Private Eye have reported on this.
According to some reports the figure was over 500 000 yearly for a decade.
The final figure may exceed 5 million.

During this time Boris Johnson became per word the highest paid journalist in Fleet Street for his weekly column
 
UK households offered £350 a month for hosting refugees

Households in the UK will be offered £350 a month to open their homes to people fleeing the war in Ukraine.
The government's Homes for Ukraine scheme calls on people to offer a spare room or an empty property to a refugee for a period of at least six months.

Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove told Sky News that 3,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war have now been granted visas.
At the moment, only those with family connections are able to make an application via the Ukraine Family Scheme. Other visas are available but application centres in Ukraine are closed.

Individuals acting as sponsors will be able to nominate a named Ukrainian individual or family to stay with them rent-free in their home, or in a separate property, for six months.
There will be no limit on the number of refugees who can come to the UK through this route, and they will be given three years leave to remain, with the right to work and access public services.

Mr Gove told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday that he anticipated "tens of thousands" of Ukrainians might be taken in by UK families and said local authorities would receive £10,000 in extra funding per refugee for support services - with more for children of school age.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60724111

They could have done this two weeks ago.
 
Reclaim Party deputy leader Martin Daubney tweeted
@MartinDaubney
The British government spends £4.7 million EVERY DAY on hotels to accommodate illegals, asylum seekers & people resettled from Afghanistan
Now, in a genuine crisis, they expect ordinary Brits to house refugees - with a handout that wouldn’t even cover food & heating. Ridiculous!

Anybody else sick of MPs & luvvies telling us we should take #Ukrainian refugees into our homes, when we’re crippled by the cost of living?
Boris, Gove, Lineker, Yvette Cooper, virtue signalling journalists, Twitter warriors - you go first!
 
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Gary Lineker reveals he is taking in another refugee to his home

Gary Lineker says he is about to take another refugee into his home after the “wonderful experience” of doing it before.
The Match of the Day presenter and former England striker welcomed a refugee into his Surrey home last year.
He told The Sun he could not “comprehend” people who criticised him for wanting to help “people who are being bombed, who are risking their lives jumping on dinghies”.
He said: “I was actually supposed to take another one a couple of weeks ago, but am just waiting on the paperwork. It wasn’t just a one-off like the public perception was.
“It’s genuine. I got a lot out of it, and it was just a wonderful experience.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/gary-lineker-taking-another-refugee-his-home-b964763.html
 
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Here in Finland we already have 2,400 Ukrainian refugees. Whole communities have clubbed together to provide clothes, foods and goods. (Ukrainians: sorry about the snow and thick ice still on the ground! Bring your skates and skis.) A tv telethon raised €5,800,000 last night.
 
Laurence Fox Reclaim Party leader tweeted

@LozzaFox
Bully for @GaryLineker that he spent some of the £1.36 million/yr he fleeces off BBC license payers to pay for 2 Syrians to enjoy short stays at Chateau Lineker
Stick to crisps Gazza? Chicken Kyiv flavour? With an extra dollop of virtue signalling?
 
Linekar is doing what they accuse him of not doing but it doesn't count because it is 'virtue signalling'

If he's actually doing it, how can he be 'virtue signalling'?
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Laurence Fox Reclaim Party leader tweeted

@LozzaFox
Bully for @GaryLineker that he spent some of the £1.36 million/yr he fleeces off BBC license payers to pay for 2 Syrians to enjoy short stays at Chateau Lineker
Stick to crisps Gazza? Chicken Kyiv flavour? With an extra dollop of virtue signalling?
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Why do you give this silly person the oxygen of publicity he is so desperate for?
 
These bloody do-gooders, going around the place doing good and setting an example.
Who the hell do they think they are?!
 
Captain_Swoop said:
UK households offered £350 a month for hosting refugees

Households in the UK will be offered £350 a month to open their homes to people fleeing the war in Ukraine.
The government's Homes for Ukraine scheme calls on people to offer a spare room or an empty property to a refugee for a period of at least six months.

Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove told Sky News that 3,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war have now been granted visas.
At the moment, only those with family connections are able to make an application via the Ukraine Family Scheme. Other visas are available but application centres in Ukraine are closed.

Individuals acting as sponsors will be able to nominate a named Ukrainian individual or family to stay with them rent-free in their home, or in a separate property, for six months.
There will be no limit on the number of refugees who can come to the UK through this route, and they will be given three years leave to remain, with the right to work and access public services.

Mr Gove told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday that he anticipated "tens of thousands" of Ukrainians might be taken in by UK families and said local authorities would receive £10,000 in extra funding per refugee for support services - with more for children of school age.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60724111

They could have done this two weeks ago.
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In normal countries the state does not outsource accommodation for refugees to individual households god dammit.
 
remember, last week, Boris ordered his MP’s to vote to include clauses in the Economic Crime Bill which will allow Russian oligarchs to sell off assets & escape sanctions & even included a loophole which could allow some to be exempted.
 
Boris ditches his pledge to ban big game hunters from bringing trophies home
He's ditched the Animals Abroad Bill.

Banning trophies was a key pledge in the 2019 Tory manifesto. The proposed new law was unveiled in last year’s Queen’s Speech.
But Westminster sources say pressure on Parliamentary time because of the war in Ukraine has scuppered the plan.

A Government spokesperson said:
We are committed to strengthening animal welfare standards and protections.
Our Action Plan for Animal Welfare sets out our vision to introduce a wide range of ambitious improvements.
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https://mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-ditches-pledge-ban-26452413
 
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Boris ditches his pledge to ban big game hunters from bringing trophies home
He's ditched the Animals Abroad Bill.

Banning trophies was a key pledge in the 2019 Tory manifesto. The proposed new law was unveiled in last year’s Queen’s Speech.
But Westminster sources say pressure on Parliamentary time because of the war in Ukraine has scuppered the plan.

A Government spokesperson said:

https://mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-ditches-pledge-ban-26452413
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Blast that EU stopping us passing the laws we want!
 
Sir Edward Leigh the Tory MP who said Lincolnshire had already "done its bit" for immigration re Ukrainian refugees, now says the West should “accommodate” Putin's occupation of Ukraine because it was “part of the Russian soul”
 
Arcade22 said:
In normal countries the state does not outsource accommodation for refugees to individual households god dammit.
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Normal countries?!

* Sweden's Migration Agency said today that it expects between tens and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees to arrive in Sweden over the coming months.
* At Nynäshamn's ferry terminal, up to 500 hundred Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion are arriving daily on the Nova star ferry from the Polish port city of Gdansk. So far, it is mainly family and friends who are housing the Ukrainians, but reminiscent of the arrival of Syrian refugees in 2015, there are also Swedes who have offered homes to refugees they have never met before, with online groups co-ordinating help.
* Radio Sweden meets three Ukrainian sisters coming off the boat from Poland and the Swede who is opening up her family home to them.
The Swedes providing shelter to Ukrainian refugees (RadioSweden, March 11, 2022)
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In the middle of a pandemic, it may not be expedient to concentrate a lot of people in one spot. And the percentage of Ukrainians who are vaccinated is even lower than in Sweden.
 
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