| Abramovich 19:56 - Mar 3 with 723 views | HARRY10 |
An excellent piece by Tom Peck that shows the current bleats by the Tories that they did not know anything was wrong, and the accepted Russian money in good faith. the warming signs were they, and publicised. Maybe some who trusted Farage and Johnson son might now question that trust. If not for the utter failure that brexit has become, but that these two and others were never speaking the truth, but the words Putin paid them to spout
I gave edited out a bit that was not pertinent to the message - but have posted a link to the full piece below
"If you’re struggling to understand why it is that the UK is taking so very long to impose any kind of meaningful sanctions on London’s oligarchs you have to realise that these matters are fiendishly complicated. It’s not simply the case that, actually, they don’t really want to. Nor is it the case that, actually, they can’t, even if they did. It’s both.
If you’re wondering why it is that France can just seize a super yacht that belongs to Vladimir Putin’s de facto deputy, Igor Sechin, while the UK makes vague commitments to maybe do this kind of thing in 18 months or so, you might find the answer just by staring out the window.
By staring, that is, at the grey spring sky and the driving rain and wondering just what it is that makes this dreary windswept island the go-to destination for the world’s super rich.
They’re here because we want them to be here. We have welcomed them, and their money, in ways that France, Germany, the US, and everywhere else in between would simply never do, by offering them tax arrangements that are an affront to the basic dignity of every British mug that actually works for a living.
British governments have either turned a blind eye or actively coalesced in the creation of a subterranean Everest of money. And now, almost overnight, the public expects its conquerors and their obscene little professional class of lawyer and accountant sherpas to be chased off it and the whole thing blown up. But the trouble is, the government doesn’t know its way around the mountain like they do.
In 2011, I spent every day for four months covering the jaw dropping £6bn court case between Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky. At the heart of the case was some shares in some Russian commodities companies that the former president, Boris Yeltsin, allowed Berezovsky to purchase for about $100m (£75m), in return for support from Berezovsky’s TV station in the 1996 presidential election.
The support was given, the election won. Thatcher’s former PR man, Lord Tim Bell, founder of PR firm Bell Pottinger, ran the campaign without emerging from the Moscow hotel where no one knew he was. Later on, these cut price assets were sold back to the Russian state for more than £6bn. But by this point, Berezovsky had fallen out with Putin, so the money went to his protégé, Roman Abramovich, and is the source of his fortune.
Berezovsky coming to London to sue Abramovich for this cash was a glorious pay day for all involved. To take but one example, Lord Sumption delayed his elevation to the Supreme Court so he could take the Abramovich case, for which he was paid more than £8m.
All that has happened, in the last few days, is that the question of whether the UK wants to carry on being the super-elite’s tax free playground has been brought into sharper focus.
Naturally, most people don’t want it to be so, but a very large number of those people also have an unerring tendency to vote for the Conservatives. (A now accepted wisdom of the current crisis is how fortunate we are that Nato-hating Jeremy Corbyn is not in charge. It is correct, but even his fiercest critics, of which I am one, would struggle to deny that he’d have started seizing assets without so much as blinking.)
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/russian-oligarchs-uk-non-dom-sanctions-ukra
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| Abramovich on 20:13 - Mar 3 with 650 views | Swansea_Blue |
(Edited after I’ve read the article).
It is about wants. But not just that. They seem to have also made it harder legislatively to act; to put additional legal and legislative steps in the way of being able to sanction people.
This tidbit of info was quite interesting. I feel it’s a bit back to front though. Brexit isn’t the cause. Brexit and this attempt to make it harder to sanction bad actors are both symptoms of the corruption. It’s that corruption (personal wealth & the trappings of power/influence above all else) that seems to be the overarching cause to everything that’s happening under our current govt (from Brexit, to duff over-priced PPE contracts, thinking they’re above the law, cash for access, Kremlin-linked donations, etc).
It looks like she’s quoting a Politico piece here
https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/london-playbook/kherson-falls-kyiv-under-fire [Post edited 3 Mar 2022 20:18]
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| Abramovich on 12:16 - Mar 4 with 395 views | HARRY10 |
| Abramovich on 20:13 - Mar 3 by Swansea_Blue |
(Edited after I’ve read the article).
It is about wants. But not just that. They seem to have also made it harder legislatively to act; to put additional legal and legislative steps in the way of being able to sanction people.
This tidbit of info was quite interesting. I feel it’s a bit back to front though. Brexit isn’t the cause. Brexit and this attempt to make it harder to sanction bad actors are both symptoms of the corruption. It’s that corruption (personal wealth & the trappings of power/influence above all else) that seems to be the overarching cause to everything that’s happening under our current govt (from Brexit, to duff over-priced PPE contracts, thinking they’re above the law, cash for access, Kremlin-linked donations, etc).
It looks like she’s quoting a Politico piece here
https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/london-playbook/kherson-falls-kyiv-under-fire [Post edited 3 Mar 2022 20:18]
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So, staying in the EU would have made it easier to take action - hence the UK being way behind the EU
You could almost think that the naughty Russkies knew thi,s and found some greedy and willing MPs to get the UK out of the EU | | | |
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