glasshalffull
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It’s worse than embarrassing. It’s very worrying. It’s clearly a payoffJust embarrassing.
There could be quite a big inflitration into the labour party as well. I think its well understood about Corbyn has sovietic connections from his past, but Blair as well was fairly tight with several Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.The Russian infiltration of the Conservative party, if true, has the potential to make all the other numerous scandals look insignificant.
This could be a very big story.
There could be quite a big inflitration into the labour party as well. I think its well understood about Corbyn has sovietic connections from his past, but Blair as well was fairly tight with several Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.
this is not whataboutism - this is to do with how the russian connections and influence goes to both sides, actually numerous sides some of which will be entirely fictitious in order to create confusion and a lack of trust
In most respects giving GW a knighthood now for whatever reason, in the hope that it doesn't alert the media, does just that and everyone gets focused on that for a while and not what is going on elsewhere.
yepMandelson and Deripaska as well.
Johnson is up to his neck in this and it would seem that his party knew about it, yet they allowed him (and elected him) to become PM;Apart from anything else, and without dwelling on how this started ( Eg did Blair encourage it at the start ) Johnson, in doing this , has no respect for us as the British people, or our country or our democracy.
Most media are unwilling to report these these things so left to those ready to dig into it. In 2020 the govt Intelligence and Security Comittee , produced its Russia Report, but wasn't able to dig too deep it seems and was more or less blocked from an examination of potential Russian interference in the 2016 referendum.Oh dear. This one really stinks. Not sure a knighthood alone will be enough to keep this quiet, but a lot of that still looks like adding 2 and 2 to make 5 at this stage?
Downing Street has privately acknowledged that Gavin Williamson’s knighthood is difficult to justify and appears “corrupt”.
After outrage from teachers and opposition parties at the honour for the former education secretary, sources close to Boris Johnson made little attempt to defend the award and said there was no way the prime minister would bring Williamson back into government. The Times.
Says it all really. Are they trying to commit political suicide? Or just laughing at us?