We'll have to get Smiley out of retirement at this rate. :cloud9:
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We'll have to get Smiley out of retirement at this rate. :cloud9:
Yeah but May bottled it. Expelling the oligarchs and seizing assets would have been my choice, especially Abramovich. :-)
They will expel a few of ours and deny the whole thing and nothing will change.
Pathetic.
Burney "We'll have to get Smiley out of retirement at this rate."
He IS coming out of retirement
Set to take over at Southampton
**** me, half of London could be reclaimed.
I have a friend who works on building projects for Russian clients. One geezer bought a whole row of houses in Belgravia. Asked the remaining one owner in the middle of the row to 'name their price' for their house. Bought it. Gutted the lot of them and is now 'redeveloping' them :moneylaundering:
Apparently most of the builders who work on the projects are not actually Latvians and Lithuanians but Russians. Apparently they cost a fortune as the money paid to the intermediary construction company is astronomical. This intermediary construction company is usually owned by the very same person who owns the property. I assume the cash generated by the redevelopment disappears out of the UK as, ultimately, the cash generated by the sale of the house.
I suppose you get a better ROI on London property than interest from a bank for your clean money...
Orwell - as ever - had these cvnts' number.
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England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box. All through the critical years many left-wingers were chipping away at English morale, trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist, sometimes violently pro-Russian, but always anti-British.”