Current Affairs Critically ill man is former Russian spy

[GrandOldTeam]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43295134

A man who is critically ill after being exposed to an unknown substance in Wiltshire is a Russian national convicted of spying for Britain, the BBC understands.

Sergei Skripal, who is 66, was granted refuge in the UK following a "spy swap" between the US and Russia in 2010.

He and a woman, 33, were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping centre in Salisbury on Sunday afternoon.

 

[roydo]

He and a woman, 33, were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping centre in Salisbury on Sunday afternoon.

I assume you havnt been to a Salisbury shopping centre on a Sunday.

A blessed relief that.

But hedging my bets here, dem Ruskies I reckon.

 

[verreauxi]

Posted this before in some thread, but it is a very interesting read about how the Russians are implicated in at least 14 assassinations in London.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake...n-british-soil?utm_term=.wly4BGL60#.ft6MkeRNZ

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Agent Corbyn delived the fatal injection

 

[peteblue]

Is this anything to do with Trump.......

 

[Market trader]

One report suggested the material was fentanyl. Not confirmed. Likely the work of the Russians as a warning to others.

 

[ilikecheese]

One report suggested the material was fentanyl. Not confirmed. Likely the work of the Russians as a warning to others.

Paul Manafort

 

[Market trader]

Paul Manafort

Involved with the Ukrainians, I think, though possibly a tool of the Russians, I suppose.

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

Is this anything to do with Trump.......

No, this has Usmanov all over it, he thought it was Walsh in his tracky

 

[Tubey]

It's weird the way the Russians insist on assassinating people by methods which pretty much scream that it was them that did it.

I get that that's the point and they want the world to know it, but it's still weird.

 

[The Speke Spectre]

They never forget

 

[ilikecheese]

They never forget

You suspect the elephants of foul play?

 

[The Speke Spectre]

You suspect the elephants of foul play?

Can hear the trumpets

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Posted this before in some thread, but it is a very interesting read about how the Russians are implicated in at least 14 assassinations in London.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake...n-british-soil?utm_term=.wly4BGL60#.ft6MkeRNZ

Umpteen deaths which have suspicions of Russian state involvement on British soil. Anyway, what would London grad real-estate do without all that Russian wealth, hell, what would the finance sector do. They are stamping their feet over that other thing we are negotiating, the UK establishment would go into proper meltdown if the flow of the Russian ruble was really severely restricted, bit of non story, unfortunate for the victims who are just collateral damage.
Not sure what else can be said apart from joking, annexing Ukraine was the time to tackle Russia. And May, she can't even take on a caricature Victorian Scrooge Rees-Mogg or BoJo the Clown, let alone Putin. This will be denied and lost in claim and counter claim of conspiracy in Russians very refined disinformation war (fake news).

 

[peteblue]

It’ll be interesting if the government pulls the England team from the World Cup.......