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Influence of Russian Oligarchs in UK

Chilli.s said:
Yeah, we need a financially nuclear option, in case the fucknuts use a military nuclear option. Seize everything. Then confiscate as and when, or return if peace does.

20 plus years of dirty cash flowing into UK, confiscation would focus minds
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Cut off energy exports and cut off their access to Swift. Then crack down on their overseas assets. Seize them and use them to buy lethal support for the Ukrainians. Easy. Problem is there’s a lot of domestic entities (Tory party and their backers) which have vested interests in Putin and his boys. You probably knew that anyway.
 
Ming said:
Cut off energy exports and cut off their access to Swift. Then crack down on their overseas assets. Seize them and use them to buy lethal support for the Ukrainians. Easy. Problem is there’s a lot of domestic entities (Tory party and their backers) which have vested interests in Putin and his boys. You probably knew that anyway.
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As much as worries about Russian chums and donors, I suspect there is wider concern amongst Tory MPs about such things as a collapse in values at the top end of the property market, and precedents being set about financial transparency and accountability that might hit other friends and donors. Can’t go making the super wealthy anxious lest they be next.
 
Dogsauce said:
As much as worries about Russian chums and donors, I suspect there is wider concern amongst Tory MPs about such things as a collapse in values at the top end of the property market, and precedents being set about financial transparency and accountability that might hit other friends and donors. Can’t go making the super wealthy anxious lest they be next.
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The problem they have is that (cleaning up the financial system) is exactly what has to happen now; it’s almost as urgent as sorting energy and food supply is.

The rest of society is much more likely to accept a gradual reduction in earnings / spending power / rapid personal transportation (which is probably coming with climate change anyway) if those at the top voluntarily rein themselves in first. If they stick to type, us and to a greater extent them are boned.
 
agricola said:
The rest of society is much more likely to accept a gradual reduction in earnings / spending power / rapid personal transportation (which is probably coming with climate change anyway) if those at the top voluntarily rein themselves in first. If they stick to type, us and to a greater extent them are boned.
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i don't know what your earnings are like but so many of us in the public sector have had a gradual reduction in earnings/spending power forced on us over the past fourteen years, to the point that we're on maybe 3/4 of what we were before the financial crisis. i haven't noticed those at the top have ever voluntarily reined themselves in over that period.
 
Pickman's model said:
i don't know what your earnings are like but so many of us in the public sector have had a gradual reduction in earnings/spending power forced on us over the past fourteen years, to the point that we're on maybe 3/4 of what we were before the financial crisis. i haven't noticed those at the top have ever voluntarily reined themselves in over that period.
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Not had an actual cut, but most years it’s been 0% rise and when there was one it was not above inflation.

I agree they’ve not reined themselves in (the opposite in fact) at all.
 
Commentator on world service this morning reckoned Investements resulting from Golden Passport/visa program in the UK accounted for only 0.3% of GDP....."Only"?????
Thats a fucking large chunk to my mind

If I knew where to look id try and verify that figure...anyone?
 
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And on the subject of Firtash, there's this murky business about the sale of Brompton Road station,

The loss of up to £80 million to the British taxpayer over this deal raises many questions about Pro-Putin influencers in the UK and the infusion of dark money in London.

Why did the UK Government agree to sell the ghost station to an oligarch already suspected of money laundering for the Russian underworld? Why did the sale go ahead despite intelligence that Firtash was a direct agent of the Kremlin and involved in a regime that had just killed 100 people in Ukraine? Why did senior Conservative Party figures accept large donations from such a man? And why hasn’t there been a full official inquiry into the scandal?

Meanwhile, the Intelligence and Security Committee report into Russian influence in the UK, cleared for publication six months ago, remains under wraps. Perhaps this is why Boris Johnson wants to keep it that way.
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bylinetimes.com

Underground Russian Influence: Johnson and the Ghost Station

Turlough Conway on how a new legal case against Boris Johnson raises more questions about money laundered in London and Conservative connections to Russia.
bylinetimes.com bylinetimes.com
 
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