Westminster Question Time

[-SharonA-]

Watching this and am pretty disgusted with the antics of our MPs, discussing the Russian situation.
Surely in this, they can all get together and decide the best way to proceed instead of squabbling like kids in a playground!!!

[Cloverjo]

They're always like that though. Pathetic!

[ToraToraTora]

You’d hope so but Agent COB and the gang are anti British so it’s natural for them to support anyone but us.

[-SharonA-]

And they're talking about the wealthy Russians here, trying to take away their money, it's not their fault!

[ichkeria]

I haven’t heard a lot of squabbling. Corbyn as usual rightly drew condemnation for his shambling performance. But other than that it seems pretty united to me

[sunny-dave]

Actually it *is* the fault of the oligarchs and their tainted/stolen money - without them Putin would not have had the means to install himself as Dictator For Life and Russia might (just possibly) be less of a threat to the rest of the world.

[Jahulaye]

Sharon welcome to the global playground of “politics”

Substitute fidget spinners for nukes and dolls and action figures for our lives.

[ichkeria]

The leader of the SNP pledged his party’s full support.
The leader of the Lib Dem’s pledged his party’s full support.
Every labour MP other than Corbyn of course spoke out passionately and supportively too

[Jahulaye]

What exactly are they saying Sharon?

[-SharonA-]

They, the Tories, are saying they want to freeze Russian assets.

[Jahulaye]

Punching into thin air and vindicating those who are nothing to do with the real issue to show the world “we don’t take anything lightly “then?

Yep, that sounds about the right behaviour from the spineless and blind...

[sevenOP]

Verdict: Guilty as assumed.
We now enter the era of The Rule of Lynch.

[Jahulaye]

“We now enter the era of The Rule of Lynch.”

Here here 7op!

I can’t believe I’m actually reading this “ freeze the oligarchs assets?”

On what grounds and does Westminster realise the amount of rubles/pound they bring to the economy?

They obviously haven’t thought this out properly and my guess is that’s it just a lot of unnecessary grunting and chest beating.

Which is to be taken literally in the commons, lol.

[ichkeria]

Isn't it a disgrace: an honest chemical war criminal can't go and poison people in a public park without a load of nasty squabbling politicians ruining it :-)

[Jahulaye]

We need proof, hard evidence, whistleblowers and sources before bringing out the judge, jury and executioners these days icheria.

[ichkeria]

And you suppose that there is not?
Or are you expecting the government to pitch up on your doorstep (wherever that may be) with all the gumf from Porton Down, Scotland Yard etc just for your benefit?
And, i am bound to say, that that would probably not be enough for you, because there's nothing like hard evidence to kill an overactive imagination stone dead :-)

[Peter Pedant]

// Isn't it a disgrace: an honest chemical war criminal can't go and poison people in a public park without a load of nasty squabbling politicians ruining it :-)//

I agree itchi - dear sweet old AOG drew the difference between a criminal act by a DOC and state spondored assassination
which I then impishly illustrated with quaint exsamples.
today I choose The bartholomews days massacre 1572 and the assassination of WIlliam the Silent in 1580. Or perhaps the stabbing of henry III by Ravaillac 1610.
( henri III de france that is!) I will let you work out which is which

I was gonna point out that when Germany invaded Russian in 1941 - no one said - "oo have dey? wared evidence for dat den ?" - they sortta ducked and ran as the mechanised Hun hordes ran over them.

( sorry about that Itchi - had a bad run wiv Mae West earlier on )

[Peter Pedant]

hey for state sponsored assassination
what about .....
the killing of the greek Generals at dindins ( the meal and not the place ) - which caused Xenophon to lead the 10 000 to Trebizon - in Anabasis ? ( the book and not the method of transport )
You know where they run towards the sea shouting
thalatta! thalatta! - 'cause they then knew they could get home.

[ichkeria]

"( sorry about that Itchi - had a bad run wiv Mae West earlier on ) "

An intriguing thought: did you bail out over the Channel ;-)

[emmie]

the government have be seen to be doing something and SD is right if it wasn't for the oligarchs then Putin wouldn't be half as powerful.

[sevenOP]

"Or are you expecting the government to pitch up on your doorstep (wherever that may be) with all the gumf from Porton Down, Scotland Yard etc just for your benefit?
And, i am bound to say, that that would probably not be enough for you, because there's nothing like hard evidence to kill an overactive imagination stone dead :-) "

Ah, so we have The Holy Cloak of National Security - Need to Know? - being drawn this time not by the State, but one willing minion,and The Holy Cloak of Satire by another.

Is this suitable evidence Peter-P

https://twitter.com/SyriaDM/status/973668324226883585

https://twitter.com/snarwani/status/973661866395361280

or maybe you have perused the KAL007 flight and decided the nice Wikipedia take
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007#Passenger_pain_and_suffering

or maybe the "The US President, Ronald Reagan, then launched into a script which must have been prepared in advance in case the Korean Air intruder was shot down, feigning outrage and claiming "the Russians" had knowingly "murdered the passengers in cold blood" although the US were fully aware from their intercepted radio calls between the Russian pilots and ground control that the Russian believed the intruder was an RC-135. A huge propaganda campaign, obviously prepared well in advance, went into full swing to demonize "the heartless communists" for "murdering innocent women and children" in the comments seems more plausible
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/16/pers-j16.html

or do you believe everything you are told like 'a good boy'