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Wednesday 23 February 2022
Bozo’s Russia Sanctions Problem
While our free and fearless press is wasting no time in telling its readers that alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and his coterie of ineptitude is either being seriously tough with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and his gangsterist régime in Moscow, or will be getting seriously tough very soon, honestly, they are convincing no-one.
Britain’s contribution to opposing Putin will, as with many other countries, be a mainly economic one, as in sanctions against Russian financial institutions, oligarchs, and maybe politicians. But as Germany’s new Chancellor Olaf Scholz under-promised and then over-delivered, canning the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, Bozo merely sanctioned five banks and three individuals. Many of his fellow Tories were unimpressed.
Across the floor of the House, Caroline Lucas was impressed even less. “Is that it?Sanctioning 5 banks and 3 oligarchs suggests the Government cares more about protecting Tory party donations and London’s laundromat than it does about imposing meaningful sanctions against Moscow”. Labour’s Chris Bryant was also unimpressed.
“Johnson’s statement on Ukraine seems remarkably thin. Just three people and some banks to be sanctioned … The government sanctions announced today are just picking off the minnows while leaving the sharks to swim freely”. And then he caught Bozo fibbing: “The PM told the House that Roman Abramovich has already been sanctioned. He hasn’t. It’s untrue”. Roman Abramovich. That’s an interesting name.
Jessica Elgot of the Guardian concentrated on Tory dismay: “Tory MPs scratching their heads today at how UK went from being hardliner on Ukraine to having the some of the weakest sanctions to announce today, when reverse has been true of Germany. Something not quite lining up”. Paul Waugh of the i Paper was on the same page.
“I'm confused again about govt's position. MPs asked [Boris Johnson] y’day if further sanctions needed fresh trigger of Putin invasion. Cleverly seemd to say no. Now [Liz Truss]: ‘We are very clear there’s a further list of oligarchs’ to be imposed *’in the event of a full invasion’*”. LBC host James O’Brien, meanwhile, had it figured out.
“In ‘sanctioning’ three oligarchs who don’t live here & five relatively unimportant banks, Johnson has given more deserving targets time to get their loot out of town”. And Otto English touched on Bozo’s reluctance: “Might be a good moment for Lord Lebedev to make a second appearance in the Lords. Few peers can be as knowledgeable about Putin and the role of Russian oligarchs in Britain. Sure his contributions would be welcomed”.
Don’t mention Perugia or John Sweeney, then. And Kevin Maguire of the Mirror showed how the Tory Party itself is compromised: “‘Nothing is off the table’ said Liz Truss. The Conservative Party returning Russian-linked money is off the table. The Foreign Secretary’s just said they’re keeping the cash”. Meanwhile, the EU actually took action.
Yesterday evening, Samuel Ramani told “The EU will impose travel bans and asset freezes on all members of the Russian State Duma”. All of them. No ifs, no buts.
Seems like the odd Russian bung may have caused Bozo to hesitate. Or perhaps that should have read the odd Russian bunga bunga. Our Prime Minister is compromised.
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You don’t get those cushy post-politics directorships by clamping down on one’s school chums in the City, y'know!
Plainly the "Russian oligarchs" have to go.
British and US oligarchs want all of the cake. But you won't find their media goons saying so.
Evgeny Alexandrovich Lebedev, Baron Lebedev born 8 May 1980 is a Russian-British businessman, who owns Lebedev Holdings Ltd, which owns the Evening Standard, The Independent and the TV channel London Live. He is the son of the Russian oligarch and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev. In July 2020, Lebedev was nominated for a life peerage by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Don't expect the Tories to do anything that affects the flow of money to them. Expect the Tories to blame the EU for future gas price rises following the cancelling of Nord Stream 2.
Make British Oligarchs Even Greater Again!
Gawd bless 'er majesty an' the Princer Wiles!
Etc...etc...etc....
These oligarchs get everywhere:
"Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (born 3 December 1967), is a British hereditary peer aristocrat and inheritor of a newspaper and media empire founded by his great-grandfather Harold Sidney Harmsworth. He is the chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, formerly "Associated Newspapers", a media conglomerate which includes the Daily Mail.
He was educated at Gordonstoun School and Duke University.
Harmsworth held various positions in Associated Newspapers and was managing director of the Evening Standard, when the sudden death of his father in 1998 resulted in his becoming the controlling shareholder and chairman of Associated and of its parent Daily Mail and General Trust just before his 31st birthday.
He has non-domicile (non-dom) tax status and owns his media businesses through a complex structure of offshore holdings and trusts.
According to the International Business Times:
"The Daily Mail owner did not deny claiming tax concessions as "non-dom", though he insisted this was because his father had lived in France. Lord Rothermere acquired France as his "domicile of birth" upon his birth as his father acquired a French "domicile of choice" by becoming a tax exile in Paris.
In 2013, Private Eye reported that the non-dom status could be in doubt because of his stately home, Ferne House, and status as a Freeman of the City of London.
He ranked fourth in the Publishing, Advertising, and PR section of The Sunday Times Rich List of 2013 with an estimated wealth of £720 million. In April 2015, The Sunday Times estimated his net worth at £1 billion.
The BBC's Newsnight programme at the end of January 2017 reported that former prime minister David Cameron had approached Lord Rothermere to sack Eurosceptic Paul Dacre, the editor of the Daily Mail in the run up to the 2016 EU membership referendum. A representative of Lord Rothermere refused to confirm or deny the story, although a spokesman for Cameron confirmed that he had tried to persuade both Dacre and Rothermere over the vote. Rothermere's representative told the media: "Over the years, Lord Rothermere has been leant on by more than one prime minister to remove Associated Newspapers' editors but, as he told Lord Justice Leveson on oath, he does not interfere with the editorial policies of his papers". "
Lebedev . As smarmy as they come.
The only thing will change is if Putin tells his mates to pull out of Lomdon...then the Tory party will then shit itself.
To 02:20.
I doubt Putin gives a shit about anybody in London.
Mad Nad is “pressuring” Ofcom to investigate whether Russia Today is playing fast and loose with its licensing Ts&Cs. This must be akin to being savaged by a feral blancmange. However, the presence of Alex Salmond on RT makes it a useful dead cat for Bloody Stupid Johnson to use to beat the SNP over the head in the Commons.
V Putin: LOL!!1!
If only the Tory mugs had read Gary Kasparov's "Winter is Coming", then they would have realised they would have been taken for mugs by Putin.
Sanctions? What a joke. Imagine if that was our reaction when Hitler invaded Poland, instead of declaring war!
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