A compelling and substantial case presented by the Met and he Government with regard to the Salisbury attack on the Skripals and of course DS Bailey.
I'm left with a number of questions foremost among which is how unfortunate it was the initial clean up after the Skripal couldn't and didn't find the perfume bottle which poisoned Rowley and Sturgess so much later - perhaps Rowley picked it up soon after the attack but didn't use it until much later (I'm guessing).
We can do very little except point the finger - when WPC Yvonne Fletcher was murdered we cut diplomatic ties with Libya but no one is suggesting that and we still went to the World Cup despite all the calls we shouldn't.
In essence, these two GRU operatives have got away with it and will continue to do so unless they are stupid enough to leave the country or there is substantial regime change in Moscow which looks even less likely.
Yes, this casts a shadow over Anglo-Russian relations but for how long ? How will we craft a trade deal with Russia once we leave the EU with this still going on ?
We can work off the frustration with anti-Corbyn jibes but in the end it makes no odds.
Joking aside Corbyn wanted the police to publish details of an ongoing investigation so that he could be satisfied Russia did it - you couldn’t make it up.
A compelling and substantial case presented by the Met and he Government with regard to the Salisbury attack on the Skripals and of course DS Bailey.
I'm left with a number of questions foremost among which is how unfortunate it was the initial clean up after the Skripal couldn't and didn't find the perfume bottle which poisoned Rowley and Sturgess so much later - perhaps Rowley picked it up soon after the attack but didn't use it until much later (I'm guessing).
We can do very little except point the finger - when WPC Yvonne Fletcher was murdered we cut diplomatic ties with Libya but no one is suggesting that and we still went to the World Cup despite all the calls we shouldn't.
In essence, these two GRU operatives have got away with it and will continue to do so unless they are stupid enough to leave the country or there is substantial regime change in Moscow which looks even less likely.
Yes, this casts a shadow over Anglo-Russian relations but for how long ? How will we craft a trade deal with Russia once we leave the EU with this still going on ?
We can work off the frustration with anti-Corbyn jibes but in the end it makes no odds.
Joking aside Corbyn wanted the police to publish details of an ongoing investigation so that he could be satisfied Russia did it - you couldn’t make it up.
Worse than that, he was given briefings on the stuff they couldn’t publish - but still didn’t believe Russia was behind the attack.
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