If you are going to have per-primary school kids run a country…
Oh my god.
I can’t believe it.
Who could have ever foreseen.
This has utterly gasted my flabber.
I have never been so shocked.
Someone, assist me in the lifting of my jaw, for it has fallen to the ground in a manner most uncouth.
This has come from nowhere.
Why did noone warn us.
Why are still giving free exposure to Lebedev assets?
Looks like the independant mistook the UK for Russia again.
Funny how they always do that.
> Sir Alan Duncan told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “There is this auction of indignation, which all of us totally understand, against anything to do with Russia.
> “So they ban this, ban that and ban everything, but in the end, we’re going to end up banning our own supplies.
> “Now, we of course, want to disadvantage Russia as an essential tool of war. But we don’t want to disadvantage ourselves so that we fall into some kind of dystopian economic collapse. We are on the edge of that.
> “Now, for instance, there are subsidiary companies of Gazprom, which are not sanctioned, which are not incorporated in Russia, which are incorporated in one case in the UK, which are essential to the smooth flowing of gas.”
Just got my Council Tax bill, yes yes we are on the fecking Edge you utter shit stain of a human being Boris.
Thought I read we only get 5% of our gas from Russia… so wtf is this guy going on about
“After graduating from Oxford, Duncan worked as a trader of oil and refined products, first with Royal Dutch Shell (1979–81)[17] and then for Marc Rich from 1982 to 1988[18] (Rich became a fugitive from justice in 1983). He worked for Rich in London and Singapore.[19] Duncan used the connections he had built up to be self-employed from 1988 to 1992, acting as a consultant and adviser to foreign governments on oil supplies, shipping and refining.[12]
In 1989, Duncan set up the independent Harcourt Consultants, which advises on oil and gas matters. He made over £1 million after helping fill the need to supply oil to Pakistan after supplies from Kuwait had been disrupted in the Gulf War.[13]”
Consultant and adviser to foreign governments on oil supplies, shipping and refining you say?
How un-fucking-surprising. Gazprom on the client list, Duncan? If this behaviour isn’t criminal, it ought to be.
Quite unrelated but as I walked past some solar panels today I realised that the argument of “renewable energy” isn’t worth the investment has totally disappeared.
We can use electricity for heating and cooking, so why not make the push to make renewables more prominent when we’re getting ripped off for gas?
Because he and his party have robbed the country blind and we have let him do so.
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Yes, of course we are, dear. Now let’s just have a little sit down, and a nice cup of tea.
Ever stopped to think why Scotland is trying to get the fuck away from these Westminster cunts?
He really thinks he’s Churchill lmao. Poundland Churchill
Reopen the coal fired power stations, bring back to life the nuclear stations. Of we don’t cut off supply now we’ll never do it, and it needs to be done.
I don’t want them to suddenly and insanely cut our gas supply, I want them to COMMIT to moving off gas and oil as soon as humanly possible, as one of the UK’s main targets for the next years. Doing sanctions now means we’ll probably get bored and forget about it in a few months when the invasion is over, and also fuck up our economy in the mean time. A long term target to move off oil means we’ll both stick it to Russia long term (which they will still understand as a form of sanction) AND give ourselves cheap clean energy.
I doubt Johnson will do anything to prevent it or mitigate the fallout. It would mean having to undo what he has set out to achieve through shaping the UK into the form he wishes. It will lose him support from his own party because they will not want to end the corruption, they have become accustomed to how things are now and are not going to let that go easily. Johnson will just sit back and watch as the country collapses around him, waiting in a hi-vis jacket and a hard hat for the inevitable photo op amongst the rubble.
“Dystopian economic collapse” sounds like a pretty big lever that Putin could pull that they’ve just advertised quite widely. Sort of thing I might keep quiet about if I were engaging in sanctions that might be retaliated against.
Umm who would have thought it? Closing down the economy and printing money like there is no tomorrow.
Boris is smiling underneath, because he probably has loads of gold, that is now skyrocketing in value. The same thing happened when brexit won vote, it lowered the pound, and he knew that would happen.
If only there were a political party to blame for this who had been steering the country for the past few years
So it’s all going to plan then….
Rees-Mogg’s dad wrote the book on disaster capitalism.
It is the bible of the modern economic conservative
It’s actually quite impressive how gawd awful these twats are.
Trump done a better job with Covid and he openly admitted he wasnt doing a single thing.
They have failed at everything! The only way for them to get better is admit their screw ups, if you keep saying you’re world leading, when you clearly are not its literally just sad and pathetic!
Something can always be done but when people arent willing to discuss and come to a solution then nothing will.
You come across as the person in the team that would throw out negatives but no attempt to solve the issue.
So, if being hopeful and believing change can happen if we work together. Then yes, im the most ignorant person in the world.
Am I being a dumbass or does that link go somewhere else now, or to an irrelevant article? I see”Boris Johnson news – live: Russia ‘built itself a trap’ and war will be ‘Putin’s end’, says Wallace”, and nothing that relates to the title.
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If you are going to have per-primary school kids run a country…
Oh my god.
I can’t believe it.
Who could have ever foreseen.
This has utterly gasted my flabber.
I have never been so shocked.
Someone, assist me in the lifting of my jaw, for it has fallen to the ground in a manner most uncouth.
This has come from nowhere.
Why did noone warn us.
Why are still giving free exposure to Lebedev assets?
Looks like the independant mistook the UK for Russia again.
Funny how they always do that.
> Sir Alan Duncan told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “There is this auction of indignation, which all of us totally understand, against anything to do with Russia.
> “So they ban this, ban that and ban everything, but in the end, we’re going to end up banning our own supplies.
> “Now, we of course, want to disadvantage Russia as an essential tool of war. But we don’t want to disadvantage ourselves so that we fall into some kind of dystopian economic collapse. We are on the edge of that.
> “Now, for instance, there are subsidiary companies of Gazprom, which are not sanctioned, which are not incorporated in Russia, which are incorporated in one case in the UK, which are essential to the smooth flowing of gas.”
Just got my Council Tax bill, yes yes we are on the fecking Edge you utter shit stain of a human being Boris.
Thought I read we only get 5% of our gas from Russia… so wtf is this guy going on about
“After graduating from Oxford, Duncan worked as a trader of oil and refined products, first with Royal Dutch Shell (1979–81)[17] and then for Marc Rich from 1982 to 1988[18] (Rich became a fugitive from justice in 1983). He worked for Rich in London and Singapore.[19] Duncan used the connections he had built up to be self-employed from 1988 to 1992, acting as a consultant and adviser to foreign governments on oil supplies, shipping and refining.[12]
In 1989, Duncan set up the independent Harcourt Consultants, which advises on oil and gas matters. He made over £1 million after helping fill the need to supply oil to Pakistan after supplies from Kuwait had been disrupted in the Gulf War.[13]”
Consultant and adviser to foreign governments on oil supplies, shipping and refining you say?
How un-fucking-surprising. Gazprom on the client list, Duncan? If this behaviour isn’t criminal, it ought to be.
Quite unrelated but as I walked past some solar panels today I realised that the argument of “renewable energy” isn’t worth the investment has totally disappeared.
We can use electricity for heating and cooking, so why not make the push to make renewables more prominent when we’re getting ripped off for gas?
Because he and his party have robbed the country blind and we have let him do so.
[deleted]
Yes, of course we are, dear. Now let’s just have a little sit down, and a nice cup of tea.
Ever stopped to think why Scotland is trying to get the fuck away from these Westminster cunts?
He really thinks he’s Churchill lmao. Poundland Churchill
Reopen the coal fired power stations, bring back to life the nuclear stations. Of we don’t cut off supply now we’ll never do it, and it needs to be done.
I don’t want them to suddenly and insanely cut our gas supply, I want them to COMMIT to moving off gas and oil as soon as humanly possible, as one of the UK’s main targets for the next years. Doing sanctions now means we’ll probably get bored and forget about it in a few months when the invasion is over, and also fuck up our economy in the mean time. A long term target to move off oil means we’ll both stick it to Russia long term (which they will still understand as a form of sanction) AND give ourselves cheap clean energy.
I doubt Johnson will do anything to prevent it or mitigate the fallout. It would mean having to undo what he has set out to achieve through shaping the UK into the form he wishes. It will lose him support from his own party because they will not want to end the corruption, they have become accustomed to how things are now and are not going to let that go easily. Johnson will just sit back and watch as the country collapses around him, waiting in a hi-vis jacket and a hard hat for the inevitable photo op amongst the rubble.
“Dystopian economic collapse” sounds like a pretty big lever that Putin could pull that they’ve just advertised quite widely. Sort of thing I might keep quiet about if I were engaging in sanctions that might be retaliated against.
Umm who would have thought it? Closing down the economy and printing money like there is no tomorrow.
Boris is smiling underneath, because he probably has loads of gold, that is now skyrocketing in value. The same thing happened when brexit won vote, it lowered the pound, and he knew that would happen.
If only there were a political party to blame for this who had been steering the country for the past few years
So it’s all going to plan then….
Rees-Mogg’s dad wrote the book on disaster capitalism.
It is the bible of the modern economic conservative
It’s actually quite impressive how gawd awful these twats are.
Trump done a better job with Covid and he openly admitted he wasnt doing a single thing.
They have failed at everything! The only way for them to get better is admit their screw ups, if you keep saying you’re world leading, when you clearly are not its literally just sad and pathetic!
Something can always be done but when people arent willing to discuss and come to a solution then nothing will.
You come across as the person in the team that would throw out negatives but no attempt to solve the issue.
So, if being hopeful and believing change can happen if we work together. Then yes, im the most ignorant person in the world.
Am I being a dumbass or does that link go somewhere else now, or to an irrelevant article? I see”Boris Johnson news – live: Russia ‘built itself a trap’ and war will be ‘Putin’s end’, says Wallace”, and nothing that relates to the title.