Just need to take a look at politicians such as Jacob Rees Moggs firm having Russian investments to know how corrupt and misguided this country establishment has become.
When he says ‘our’ he means the Tory Party. The average person in the UK has nothing to do with this, it is Tory Party corruption.
May want to take a fresh look at British corruption while you’re at it.
>This failure is starkly illustrated by our attitude to Russian influence and corruption in the UK. The intelligence and security committee inquiry on Russia, whose open report the prime minister suppressed for nine months on an entirely bogus pretext, was presented with the clearest evidence that Russia saw no distinction between economic and state interests, and that it used elements of its diaspora in the UK to further its interests.
Tory is always going to Tory.
A sensible Tory speaks at last. We’d almost forgotten what they sounded like.
Was Grieve a remainer pushed aside by the brexit mob? He sounds like an intelligent Tory. He writes in complete sentences. Nothing like the current cabinet.
It’s obvious Boris is personally a bit pissed off over Putins actions and I’d posit that’s because Boris has such a corrupt relationship with him. Thing is Boris is doing the right thing so for now I’m on his side while he’s saying the right thing as the only thing that matters is Ukrainian freedom. After this crisis we need to go back to holding Boris to account for his corrupt failures.
On 26 June 2017, it was reported that Holland & Barrett was sold for £1.8 billion to L1 Retail, a group controlled by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman
Russian corruption in Britain is British corruption.
Agreed! But you could write this headline about the Chinese soon.
Too many politicians are won over by some Chinese money
Our tolerance of British corruption has clouded our judgement too.
Oh, can we finally talk about all that Russian money that went to UKIP and the Leave campaign?
*Our* means the Tories. *Tolerance* means greed. This is a betrayal of our country and people. Shame on the Tories.
I would say our tolerance for despots here has clouded our judgement for despots elsewhere. Trump, Mini-Trump and Putin, the triumvirate of incompetent strongmen.
Some of us are not tolerant of this though because some of us don’t have voices. We know that Russia is a dictatorship with a psycho for a leader who sends kill squads to this country. It’s only those who have their hand in the cookie jar are afraid to say otherwise. That means Tories as they take bungs from the Russians, all the homes, businesses, soccer clubs, banks, financial institutions, they’re all tainted with blood money now. But we’ve been saying the Russian money is blood money for years. Just now that it’s become a hot topic.
Having links to Russian oligarchs and their govt needs to be a death knell for a politicians career from now on. Hopefully people will keep pushing the tories on this for months.
Wasn’t he the guy who authored the report on russian interference in the Brexit vote?
Bit rich coming from the Guardian who would be the first major paper to condemn us for acting as the world’s policeman
We have a Minister for Anti-Corruption, his name is John Penrose, the Conservative MP for Weston-super-Mare. But he is totally silent on the subject of Tory party corruption, I wonder why?
‘our’ tolerance? Who’s this our we are speaking of? The political class sure, The City yep them too, but the everyday people? Ask any of them what they think of Russian money in our politics and I know what answer you’d get.
Disingenuous hand wringing pricks
It’s not “tolerance”, it’s turning a blind eye, and **then** contemptibly, they were in with both hands themselves, too.
A reminder: Dominic Grieve had his hands on the unredacted Russia Report and chose not to leak it.
Without Russian corruption, Boris wouldn’t be where he is.
Your partys tolerance more like. The British people played no part in this.
Well Obviously. Normal people (eg, people not on the take from these crooks) have been saving for decades that letting Russian oligarchs (read, criminals) who are running Putin’s corrupt regime was a terrible fucking idea, but governments were willing to let it happen because they got their cut.
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Just need to take a look at politicians such as Jacob Rees Moggs firm having Russian investments to know how corrupt and misguided this country establishment has become.
When he says ‘our’ he means the Tory Party. The average person in the UK has nothing to do with this, it is Tory Party corruption.
May want to take a fresh look at British corruption while you’re at it.
>This failure is starkly illustrated by our attitude to Russian influence and corruption in the UK. The intelligence and security committee inquiry on Russia, whose open report the prime minister suppressed for nine months on an entirely bogus pretext, was presented with the clearest evidence that Russia saw no distinction between economic and state interests, and that it used elements of its diaspora in the UK to further its interests.
Tory is always going to Tory.
A sensible Tory speaks at last. We’d almost forgotten what they sounded like.
Was Grieve a remainer pushed aside by the brexit mob? He sounds like an intelligent Tory. He writes in complete sentences. Nothing like the current cabinet.
It’s obvious Boris is personally a bit pissed off over Putins actions and I’d posit that’s because Boris has such a corrupt relationship with him. Thing is Boris is doing the right thing so for now I’m on his side while he’s saying the right thing as the only thing that matters is Ukrainian freedom. After this crisis we need to go back to holding Boris to account for his corrupt failures.
On 26 June 2017, it was reported that Holland & Barrett was sold for £1.8 billion to L1 Retail, a group controlled by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman
Russian corruption in Britain is British corruption.
Agreed! But you could write this headline about the Chinese soon.
Too many politicians are won over by some Chinese money
Our tolerance of British corruption has clouded our judgement too.
Oh, can we finally talk about all that Russian money that went to UKIP and the Leave campaign?
*Our* means the Tories. *Tolerance* means greed. This is a betrayal of our country and people. Shame on the Tories.
I would say our tolerance for despots here has clouded our judgement for despots elsewhere. Trump, Mini-Trump and Putin, the triumvirate of incompetent strongmen.
Some of us are not tolerant of this though because some of us don’t have voices. We know that Russia is a dictatorship with a psycho for a leader who sends kill squads to this country. It’s only those who have their hand in the cookie jar are afraid to say otherwise. That means Tories as they take bungs from the Russians, all the homes, businesses, soccer clubs, banks, financial institutions, they’re all tainted with blood money now. But we’ve been saying the Russian money is blood money for years. Just now that it’s become a hot topic.
Having links to Russian oligarchs and their govt needs to be a death knell for a politicians career from now on. Hopefully people will keep pushing the tories on this for months.
Wasn’t he the guy who authored the report on russian interference in the Brexit vote?
Bit rich coming from the Guardian who would be the first major paper to condemn us for acting as the world’s policeman
We have a Minister for Anti-Corruption, his name is John Penrose, the Conservative MP for Weston-super-Mare. But he is totally silent on the subject of Tory party corruption, I wonder why?
‘our’ tolerance? Who’s this our we are speaking of? The political class sure, The City yep them too, but the everyday people? Ask any of them what they think of Russian money in our politics and I know what answer you’d get.
Disingenuous hand wringing pricks
It’s not “tolerance”, it’s turning a blind eye, and **then** contemptibly, they were in with both hands themselves, too.
A reminder: Dominic Grieve had his hands on the unredacted Russia Report and chose not to leak it.
Without Russian corruption, Boris wouldn’t be where he is.
Your partys tolerance more like. The British people played no part in this.
Well Obviously. Normal people (eg, people not on the take from these crooks) have been saving for decades that letting Russian oligarchs (read, criminals) who are running Putin’s corrupt regime was a terrible fucking idea, but governments were willing to let it happen because they got their cut.