I think that it is fairly safe to say that the ex-Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned in Salisbury by the Russians, so we are just waiting for the police to pluck up the courage to point the finger at Putin directly. He has done it before - 14 times in this country alone. I think that the only way you could smuggle a military-grade nerve-agent like that into the Britain would be in a diplomatic bag, and diplomats - as we know - merely represent the government of their country.
As if she didn't have enough on her plate at the moment, Theresa May is wracking her brains about how to respond to this flagrant and outrageous display of disrespect and contempt for a sovereign country and human life.
Putin is - we are told - mounting cyber attacks on many different countries as if to say, "Fuck the lot of you, I've got nuclear weapons. What are you going to do about it?" In having the luxury of being able to turn on your central heating from the other side of the world, we are giving Russia the ability to potentially bring the military, the transport system, the NHS, the National Grid and the Stock Exchange crashing down in seconds.
It will be a very scary situation if she - as she inevitably must - sends home all the diplomats, spies and oligarchs. The oligarchs who own much of the better areas of London will just take their money elsewhere. They got to where they are now through people like Putin in any case, after Russia embraced the worst aspects of the Western Capitalist system.
All this trouble being caused by a small handful of psychopaths around the world.
Boris is not a psychopath. Vladimir definitely is.
ReplyDelete15 year olds sneaking through the tunnel and given refuge here try to blow us up and make bombs in their foster homes. Many could cripple this country in the way your describe and are already living here and we are paying for them.
ReplyDelete15 year old immigrants don't usually have the resources that the Russian state has in abundance. Or am I completely out of touch with reality?
DeleteI mean "many" as in "many people". But while on that point, computer hackers are just as likely to be 15 as 55 or even more likely. The knocking off of Litvinenko didn't start WW3. Reality is that there are people already in this country who are more likely to get us than Putin.
DeleteAnd... let me guess... they are all immigrants and we are paying for them?
DeleteAnd why not face reality?
DeleteFunny. I thought I had. Are you seriously suggesting that a few 15 year old immigrants on social security are more dangerous than the whole of Russia's secret service?! If so, how much are they being paid per week?!
DeleteRead it more carefully. I defined many for you.
DeleteOh, maybe you don't know. There is currently a bomber up at the Old Bailey who came here smuggled at 15 through the tunnel, admitted he was trained by IS and ordered bomb ingredients from Amazon for £20.
DeleteWhat the fuck has that got to do with this post? Have got some sort of Brexit agenda which you cannot shut up about?
DeleteNo I haven't. I explained it to you because you seemed unable to pick up on my 15 year old example. And it fits because I said that any hacker could blow this country to bits in the areas you mention in your post, it does not have to be anything to do with Putin, or millions. I have no Brexit agenda and I rarely if ever mention anything about Brexit.
DeleteThen why are you banging on about terrorists who British tax payers are funding, having the capability to blow this country to bits by using ingredients they have bought from their corner shop or wherever? The subject of this particular post has EVERYTHING to do with Putin and millions - can't you see that? I have done my best to avoid bringing up the subject of the fucking mess that is Brexit, but everything you say in the above comments forces me back to it.
DeleteThis post is to do with organised, state-funded, Russian crime. The hackers that you refer to are NOTHING compared to organised, state-funded experts, who - I am sure - are a fuck sight older than fifteen or sixteen. If you want to just carry on irritating the shit out of me for the sake of it, then I will carry on talking about Brexit and all the other issues which divide us.
Once, when my after in law was our man in Moscow, some twit left a window open, and a whole load of papers were blown outside onto the pavement below. All the nice secret service men (KGB) gathered them up, and gave them back. Foreign diplomacy was very different in those days!
ReplyDeleteN.B. My 'after in law' later became my 'father in law'.
DeleteBritish spies wore bowler hats then.
DeleteI keep looking around for the newest incarnation of Churchill or Roosevelt. We'll see what happens.
ReplyDeleteI must add, as much as we need them, neither would be inclined to say a word. Well, maybe Churchill. Spies die for this.
DeleteWe are waiting for the second coming of King Arthur.
DeleteBritain has sold out in so many ways, not least by flogging the family silver. I can’t see anyone will be able.
ReplyDeleteor come to that, have the courage to, at the very least try to correct the complete cock up we now find ourselves in.
It will not be fixed in my lifetime. Waitrose has been losing 70% profits year by year for the last three years. Tragedy.
DeleteWhen I look at the young Boris and the young Vladimir in your photographs I can't help seeing a likeness - they could almost be brothers.
ReplyDeleteOne is thin and intelligent, the other is fat and stupid.
DeleteI wanted to make some sort of troll comment but I'm unable to think of one. I'll just remind you that I live close to the site of the spy mystery in the " sleepy city of Salisbury". So six degrees of separation from Russians and Putin - would that do? Also there's a guy down the local coffee shop who swears his mum let the husband of famous glamorous Russian spy Anna Chapman who was swapped for the Salisbury spy sleep on her sofa. Salisbury sleepy? It's a nest of espionage and of course chemical weapon research down the road at Porton Down. Makes popping into Tesco which is adjacent to the Zizzi restaurant almost an act of subterfuge. " Unknown object in the bagging area"? You betcha!
ReplyDeleteOMG - I've just seen (the edge) of my parent's gravestone in a photo in The Daily Telegraph showing Ludmilla Skripal's grave in a Salisbury cemetary. Go away Putin!
DeleteYour back yard.
Deletechildren of the dammed
ReplyDeleteOh yes. Particularly Boris's hair.
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