Current Affairs Critically ill man is former Russian spy

[longers]

dave we aren't even taking action against Russia, beyond sending 23 people home

We’ve already slapped as many sanctions as we feel can on them over Ukraine and not rowed any back. That is why they can basically do whatever they like as they know there is no further we can go.

 

[orly]

Hope what never happens in Hull? A town poisoned and not evacuated. The guys car is impounded and the truck used is allowed to go on its merry way. Only for this to then be impounded a day later. This is Keystone copsesk incompetent response after 'a town has been poisoned' by who knows what. What was the town poisoned with?

There's the problem, misinformation

 

[peteblue]

Hope what never happens in Hull? A town poisoned and not evacuated. The guys car is impounded and the truck used is allowed to go on its merry way. Only for this to then be impounded a day later. This is Keystone copsesk incompetent response after 'a town has been poisoned' by who knows what. What was the town poisoned with?

Nothing, apparently two people and a police officer who helped them just didn’t feel too good and went to hospital. Nothing to see here, move along.......

 

[tsubaki]

We’ve already slapped as many sanctions as we feel can on them over Ukraine and not rowed any back. That is why they can basically do whatever they like as they know there is no further we can go.

longers - the sanctions are that severe that the Russian First Deputy PM owns a £14 million pound flat on Whitehall Court, and one of Putin's other mates owns the biggest penthouse in London (and paid to have a Russian church dismantled, flown to the UK, hauled in bits up fifty floors and then reassembled in it).

 

[peteblue]

We’ve already slapped as many sanctions as we feel can on them over Ukraine and not rowed any back. That is why they can basically do whatever they like as they know there is no further we can go.

They can do whatever they like, as can quite a few countries. But they happen to like putting their money into and through London, because we happen to play by rules. So now we can stop them doing it. A minor inconvenience obviously, but one that might at least make a few powerful Russian people have the odd second thought about Putin. No one on this planet is god...everyone needs support........

 

[orly]

longers - the sanctions are that severe that the Russian First Deputy PM owns a £14 million pound flat on Whitehall Court, and one of Putin's other mates owns the biggest penthouse in London (and paid to have a Russian church dismantled, flown to the UK, hauled in bits up fifty floors and then reassembled in it).

NEA that's ace

 

[Milkman]

There's the problem, misinformation

Novichok is ours.

 

[hullefc]

Nothing, apparently two people and a police officer who helped them just didn’t feel too good and went to hospital. Nothing to see here, move along.......

And for eating some dodgy borsch May is expelling 23 Russians.

 

[hullefc]

They can do whatever they like, as can quite a few countries. But they happen to like putting their money into and through London, because we happen to play by rules. So now we can stop them doing it. A minor inconvenience obviously, but one that might at least make a few powerful Russian people have the odd second thought about Putin. No one on this planet is god...everyone needs support........

Does this extend to BP and its Russian investments in state owned companies? Does this extend to buying Russian liquid gas to shore up supplies? Does this extend to telling the British Virgins Islands to not accept Russian money? Does it extend to London's property ?

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Things like this will happen, when a former KGB operative is put in charge of Russia.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

I always notice that Putins biggest defenders and fans in the west, are usually of the deranged tinfoil hat wearing variety.This Putin guy needs to be bought before the Hague imo.

 

[tsubaki]

I always notice that Putins biggest defenders and fans in the west, are usually of the deranged tinfoil hat wearing variety.This Putin guy needs to be bought before the Hague imo.

Not likely. Putin's biggest supporters are those who allow him and his cronies to continue to do what he does, irrespective of what he actually does. A substantial part of the City and its hangers-on are addicted to the Russian money, and him using nerve agent to poison a man, his daughter and a cop is no more likely to result in effective sanctions than him fatally irradiating someone was, or bombing Syrian kids was, or seizing the Crimea was.

The mad thing is that its those people who have taken his money who have the gall to call someone else a traitor.

 

[longers]

longers - the sanctions are that severe that the Russian First Deputy PM owns a £14 million pound flat on Whitehall Court, and one of Putin's other mates owns the biggest penthouse in London (and paid to have a Russian church dismantled, flown to the UK, hauled in bits up fifty floors and then reassembled in it).

Judt because some Russian oligarchs lives weren’t effected doesn’t mean the sanctions weren’t severe. The sanctions over the Ukraine conflict played a large part in the ruble collapsing and the subsequent Russian financial crisis.

 

[tsubaki]

Judt because some Russian oligarchs lives weren’t effected doesn’t mean the sanctions weren’t severe. The sanctions over the Ukraine conflict played a large part in the ruble collapsing and the subsequent Russian financial crisis.

Well yes - perhaps I should have said that the sanctions didn't target the people responsible for things.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

And for eating some dodgy borsch May is expelling 23 Russians.

23 known spies, just as well that's all of them!lol

Judt because some Russian oligarchs lives weren’t effected doesn’t mean the sanctions weren’t severe. The sanctions over the Ukraine conflict played a large part in the ruble collapsing and the subsequent Russian financial crisis.

The world wide crash in oil prices had much more impact on Russian economy and was purely coincidental with sanctions! Still it's mafia state and sanctions will always be limited because of how the country is run.