Now I don't want to get all jingoistic, but this Salisbury business.

[Sir C]

Yeah, let's have a nuclear war, despite Russia having no motive for killing a bloke they could have killed in their own prison years ago. And if they did they wouldn't be so clumsy.

I quite like the weird theory about another Clinton murder, bumping him off before he spills something about Steele's (to whom he was connected) dodgy dossier, while blaming Russia as an excuse to ramp up the defcon even further. #WereAllGoingToDie

Tell me a, do you see Comrade Putin as a sort of benevolant figure, father of the Russian people and friend to all the peoples of the world, unfairly maligned and smeared and the victim of all sorts of bizarre conspiracies?

I mean, why would the rest of the world constantly want to make up stuff about the chap and his regime?

[PSRB]

Tell me a, do you see Comrade Putin as a sort of benevolant figure, father of the Russian people and friend to all the peoples of the world, unfairly maligned and smeared and the victim of all sorts of bizarre conspiracies?

I mean, why would the rest of the world constantly want to make up stuff about the chap and his regime?

My best mate married a Ruskie and has gone all very defensive about Putin. It's very weird

[Rich]

My best mate married a Ruskie and has gone all very defensive about Putin. It's very weird

When I was diving in Egypt there were lots of them there (drinking vodka at 8am and stamping on coral ) & many of them were sporting t-shirts with Putin's face/Putin riding a horse/Putin drinking vodka/Putin climbing a mountain on.

[PSRB]

When I was diving in Egypt there were lots of them there (drinking vodka at 8am and stamping on coral ) & many of them were sporting t-shirts with Putin's face/Putin riding a horse/Putin drinking vodka/Putin climbing a mountain on.

Same in ski resorts as well. All money, no manners.

[redgunamo]

Tell me a, do you see Comrade Putin as a sort of benevolant figure, father of the Russian people and friend to all the peoples of the world, unfairly maligned and smeared and the victim of all sorts of bizarre conspiracies?

I mean, why would the rest of the world constantly want to make up stuff about the chap and his regime?

Perhaps we need to ask this young lady?

[Sir C]

Perhaps we need to ask this young lady?

It I had a pwerful electron microscope to hand, r, I might know what you're on about. Sadly, I don't.

[redgunamo]

It I had a pwerful electron microscope to hand, r, I might know what you're on about. Sadly, I don't.

Ah, yes. Quite. Well, it's just a photo of a young Frau Merkel, got up as a commie. Almost certainly for a fancy dress party.

Or something.

I mean, nobody is seriously suggesting she's a life-long sympathiser and would prefer that the past remain in the past or anything like that.

No.

[Burney]

Ah, yes. Quite. Well, it's just a photo of a young Frau Merkel, got up as a commie. Almost certainly for a fancy dress party.

Or something.

I mean, nobody is seriously suggesting she's a life-long sympathiser and would prefer that the past remain in the past or anything like that.

No.

Thing is, r, as far as I'm concerned all continental European politicians are either commies or fascists at heart. It's in their nature. They've never really got democracy in any meaningful sense, so it's inevitable, really.

[redgunamo]

Thing is, r, as far as I'm concerned all continental European politicians are either commies or fascists at heart. It's in their nature. They've never really got democracy in any meaningful sense, so it's inevitable, really.

Oh, I agree 100%. I was merely answering C's query about the benevolence of Steve Putin

[Burney]

It I had a pwerful electron microscope to hand, r, I might know what you're on about. Sadly, I don't.

It's Mutti Merkel in her DDR Freie Deutsche Jugend outfit.