Agreed about Foot - a bit like with Corbyn the Labour party really shot themselves in the shoe encased organ
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Slim on March 08, 2022, 04:16:20 PMI can accept your second paragraph there but definitely not the speculation in the last paragraph. Obviously the decision to attack the islands was not taken by Mrs Thatcher.
Quote from: Slim on March 08, 2022, 02:59:37 PMI hadn't heard that one before - in all honesty I don't think even Neil Oliver would buy that one.
I remember reading an analysis in the '80s that suggested she would have won the '83 election either way. I wouldn't quite say the 'Falklands Factor' was a myth, but I do think it's overstated.
Quote from: Slim on March 07, 2022, 09:59:58 AMHere's one that annoys me. People crawling behind you in a car when they have plenty of time to overtake. What's that about? I had a woman stalk me in a Mini for about a mile along Heather Lane once.
Quote from: Fishy on March 07, 2022, 09:53:34 AMYep I'm all for plenty of room from cars but some folks are right over onto the other side even on upcoming bends and hills.. madness
Quote from: Slim on March 04, 2022, 11:07:27 AMNot only on paper, but not all of them are implicated in the Kremlin's nefarious activities.
Quote from: Slim on March 03, 2022, 11:13:12 PMQuote from: dom on March 03, 2022, 11:07:11 PMThis article (from 2019) doesn't seem to suggest that the UKs contributions are anything special compared to others...?
https://www.csis.org/analysis/not-contributing-enough-summary-european-military-and-development-assistance-ukraine-2014
A2 in that piece, an answer to "How much military aid does Ukraine receive from European countries and Canada?" seems to suggest otherwise to me.
Quote from: Slim on March 03, 2022, 10:49:07 PMQuote from: dom on March 03, 2022, 10:26:29 PMQuote from: dom on March 03, 2022, 08:13:16 PMNumber of companies or individuals sanctioned for links to Putin:
🇪🇺 EU 446
🇨🇭 Switzerland 351
🇺🇸 USA 148
🇬🇧 UK 24
Come on Johnson! Get your finger out! Any reason for the stalling?
Still think this question needs answering. With so many Russian oligarchs having made their homes here and invested so much of their ill gotten gains in the UK why has its response been so poor compared to the likes of the US and the EU?
I honestly don't know what the real figures are; my own information was that over 100 people and entities had had their assets frozen by Feb 24th. So this notion of a poor response sounds a bit like spin to me. There's no doubt in any case that we've been pushing for harder sanctions on the international stage. Worth remembering also that the EU is a collection of countries so aggregating their effort, welcome though it may be, into a single score is not really helpful.
It might well be something like wanting to ensure that proper culpability is established, rather than just targeting people for being Russian.
Just read that two Kremlin associates were sanctioned this evening. It's a work in progress, as it must be.