Russia's at it again

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I eagerly await the 'Porton Down, Putin's Puppet' and 'Porton Down, The Kremlin Stooge' front pages.
 

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:lol::lol::lol:
I highly recommend the whole series and it's predecessor Yes Minister. The writer actually had insight from working in the civil service. Much of what went on behind the scenes then probably still goes onto today.

Edit only bother with the 80s series, the attempted remake wasn't very good.

Oh and it's on netflix
 

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I highly recommend the whole series and it's predecessor Yes Minister. The writer actually had insight from working in the civil service. Much of what went on behind the scenes then probably still goes onto today.

Edit only bother with the 80s series, the attempted remake wasn't very good.

Oh and it's on netflix
Thanks

I've watched the odd episode here and there but I've really got to check out the whole series.
 

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I eagerly await the 'Porton Down, Putin's Puppet' and 'Porton Down, The Kremlin Stooge' front pages.
Are they really allowed to make such a claim? Reporting on dismay at his approach is one thing but claiming he's a Kremlin stooge? Incredible
 

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Looks like they're trying to redirect the error to bad copy whilst claiming Boris said nothing wrong.

The rare occasion i feel sorry for May is that she is unable to sack Boris whilst he continues to prove unfit to serve.
 

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Looks like they're trying to redirect the error to bad copy whilst claiming Boris said nothing wrong.

The rare occasion i feel sorry for May is that she is unable to sack Boris whilst he continues to prove unfit to serve.
What on earth was he thinking attributing expert opinion to DSTL, when they hadn't even given it.

He is a complete embarrassment and should be sacked immediately.
 

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I highly recommend the whole series and it's predecessor Yes Minister. The writer actually had insight from working in the civil service. Much of what went on behind the scenes then probably still goes onto today.

Edit only bother with the 80s series, the attempted remake wasn't very good.

Oh and it's on netflix
What remake?

There is also 'The Thick of It' which is a must watch imo.
 

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The Russian government have some chutzpah, making hay about false statements when it's not long since they were denying they knew anything called novichok existed.
 

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To be fair the British don’t have a great track record when it comes to accusing countries about chemical weapons. After the Iraq WOMD debacle I wouldn’t trust the British governments with anything they say on the matter..
 

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To be fair the British don’t have a great track record when it comes to accusing countries about chemical weapons. After the Iraq WOMD debacle I wouldn’t trust the British governments with anything they say on the matter..
I'd still trust them more than I trust the fecking Russian government. By a factor of 1000x.
 

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To be fair the British don’t have a great track record when it comes to accusing countries about chemical weapons. After the Iraq WOMD debacle I wouldn’t trust the British governments with anything they say on the matter..
You seem to confuse trusting intelligence sources in a remote middle Eastern country with investigations in your actual country.
 

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To be fair the British don’t have a great track record when it comes to accusing countries about chemical weapons. After the Iraq WOMD debacle I wouldn’t trust the British governments with anything they say on the matter..
Very different circumstances - after all, some nerve agent did nearly kill 3 people in Salisbury. It’s merely a question of where it came from, not whether it exists. And the balance of probabilities suggests it came from Russia even if the level of proof is not currently as absolute as our clownish foreign secretary makes out.
 
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The story obviously inspired Joseph Conrad to write “The Secret Agent” with its story of black ops in London by a thinly disguised Russian secret service. And Conrad was an anglicised Pole. The outlines of the giant anti-Russia conspiracy become clearer...
 

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I'd still trust them more than I trust the fecking Russian government. By a factor of 1000x.
I’m not saying the Russian government is more trustworthy, I’m playing Devil’s Advocate by asking the question whether we can trust our own government after the Iraq fiasco?
 

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What the feck has this got to do with Leave.EU? Oh... right.
Leave.EU co-founder Aaron Banks:
OK so here we go:

westmonster.com whois lookup:

ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT
Name:
Domains Administrator

Organization:
Eldon Insurance Services Limited

Street:
Lysander House Catbrain Lane, Cribbs Causeway

City:
Bristol

State:
South Gloucestershire

Postal Code:
BS10 7TQ

Country:
GB

Phone:
+44.8449029778

Email:
@eldoninsurance.co.uk

Eldon Insurance Services Founder: Arron Banks

In November 2017, the Electoral Commission announced that it is investigating whether election rules were broken during the EU referendum, in donations worth a total of £8.4 million to Leave.EU campaigners made by Banks and by Better for the Country Ltd, a company of which Banks is a registered director.

Is it a trustworthy source?

feck no :lol:
Here's where it get's even more juicy.....

Shortly afterwards, Banks met the woman who was to become his second wife, a Portsmouth-based Russian called Ekaterina Paderina. According to the Sunday Times, Paderina’s former husband had been interviewed twice by Special Branch because they suspected her of working for the Russian government.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/adam-ramsay/how-did-arron-banks-afford-brexit


EDIT - More on Ekaterina Paderina, an article from 2010:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/po...l-Democrat-MP-helped-second-Russian-girl.html
 

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So basically they managed to kill nobody - have to say if the Russian authorities wanted him dead that badly you would have thought they could just get a russian mobster to go all trotsky and stick an ice pick in his head

To do something like a chemical weapon yet still feck it up is complete incompetence - whoever is ultimately responsible must be in a senior position and must be a complete idiot

?
Not really - boris would have fecked up the plan waaaaaaay before they managed to even make the chemicals)
 

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So basically they managed to kill nobody - have to say if the Russian authorities wanted him dead that badly you would have thought they could just get a russian mobster to go all trotsky and stick an ice pick in his head

To do something like a chemical weapon yet still feck it up is complete incompetence - whoever is ultimately responsible must be in a senior position and must be a complete idiot

?
Not really - boris would have fecked up the plan waaaaaaay before they managed to even make the chemicals)
Or maybe someone that wanted to put the suspicion onto the Russian government?
 

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So basically they managed to kill nobody - have to say if the Russian authorities wanted him dead that badly you would have thought they could just get a russian mobster to go all trotsky and stick an ice pick in his head
Not sure why people think Russia are highly skilled at this sort of thing.
Remember the theatre siege when they killed the people they were trying to save by poisoning? Litvinenko stayed alive long enough to publicly point the finger at the Kremlin too.
 

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So basically they managed to kill nobody - have to say if the Russian authorities wanted him dead that badly you would have thought they could just get a russian mobster to go all trotsky and stick an ice pick in his head

To do something like a chemical weapon yet still feck it up is complete incompetence - whoever is ultimately responsible must be in a senior position and must be a complete idiot
Not really - boris would have fecked up the plan waaaaaaay before they managed to even make the chemicals)
Don’t think killing someone with a nerve agent or radioactive polonium is part of a Russian operative’s training.

But give them some credit...it took three messy attempts to kill Litvinenko and one of the “operatives” (I use that term loosely) managed to poison himself in the process. They’re amateurs with anything complicated but they do like to give it a go.