Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
We as a trading nation must make it up with Russia as I said before it will cost us millions of pounds if we do not .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#2
I say we distance ourselves from them completely and continue the clampdown on the Oligarchs living here. Watch them disappear as they are ordered to prove that they made their billions honestly.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
That kind of person is all round the world we have some to, so why pick on the ones who come from Russia.
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Captain Haddock
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#4
Err because the little buggers are shooting down civilian airliners and poisoning people on our streets for starters?
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Weird Granny Slater
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#5
As clamping down on the oligarchs could present a cashflow problem for some residents of Matthew Parker Street I think that's unlikely to happen.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#6
Weird Granny Slater wrote:As clamping down on the oligarchs could present a cashflow problem for some residents of Matthew Parker Street I think that's unlikely to happen.
“Putin’s tactics owe much to the ‘active measures’ practiced by the KGB during the Cold War, subverting truth to undermine our faith in our institutions. He seeks to demoralise and divide us".
Q.E.D?
(Full report here - follow link
http://henryjacksonsociety.org/2018/06/04/a-definition-of-contemporary-russian-conflict-how-does-the-kremlin-wage-war/ )
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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#7
Oh, do the HJS have a tennis club too? How lovely. Still, I expect you'll be looking for a new bogeyman now Vlad the derailer's teamed up with the ex-Habsburg bunch and Mueller appears to have lost the scent.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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#8
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Oh, do the HJS have a tennis club too?
Evidently, as normal HJS service has resumed. Weren't these the lovely propagandaists that The Charity Commission took exception to? "
The regulator says it is assessing whether it has any regulatory role after a newspaper reported the charity was paid £10,000 to promote anti-China propaganda." Source:
https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/charity-commission-looking-henry-jackson-society/governance/article/1424329Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#9
The Bishop wrote:normal HJS service has resumed
https://henryjacksonsociety.org/
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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#10
#9 Like I said, propagandists.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
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#11
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44757239
Russia is either distributing Novichok very close to the labs at Porton Down or not. Do we have a Home Secretary with a more measured approach or is it just because England are in a World Cup semi-final?
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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#12
Depends on whether you believe a government of proven liars or the Russians. Or neither. The sure thing is, as The Slog would say, IABATO: it's all bollocks and that's official.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button
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#13
Makes you yearn for the days of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.
(Not my real name.)
Brian Dixon
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#14
or mrs simpson and king eddie.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#15
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Depends on whether you believe a government of proven liars or the Russians.
Still having trouble making up your mind?
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-statement-on-the-salisbury-investigation-5-september-2018"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#16
This will probably fizzle out despite the Police having enough evidence to bring charges. Russia will simply threaten to expel our best secret agents (sorry I meant trade delegates) from Moscow.
Jan Higgins
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#17
Unless the two named men leave Russia it means very little except to say we were right, they will never end up in court.
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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#18
Adds a little further pressure to Jezza. He fended it off earlier.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#19
Evening Standard - 6 April:-
Mr Corbyn has criticised the Government for blaming Russia hastily. His backbench ally Chris Williamson gave an interview to Russia Today that accused ministers of exploiting the attack as a “smokescreen ... as a way of diverting attention from their difficulties over Brexit”. Both comments have been broadcast on Russian state TV. 
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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#20
Captain Haddock wrote:Still having trouble making up your mind?
Like Muddy Waters, I can't be satisfied.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
