Re: So then, Peter..
AS always, it's almost certainly much more complicated than that.
As noted elsewhere, those Russians whose money has a nice life in London are, like as not, the kinds of people more likely to be on the receiving end of a nice fresh delivery of nerve agent, than bezzie mates with the hitman.
We should certainly bestow upon some key Russian diplomats the Royal Order Of The Size Nine. I feel confident that this will happen.
We should also apply the thumbscrews not to individuals, but to some of Vlad's favourite businesses, should they be plying the trade in our fair capital. I feel less confident that this will happen.
More perturbing than May's admittedly quite professional and statesmanlike response was the utterly wet and pathetic mewlings of Comrade Corbyn, who seems to be confusing the hyper-crony-capitalist state of the Russian Federation with his beloved USSR, the collapse of which in 1991 he seems to have not noticed.
As noted elsewhere, those Russians whose money has a nice life in London are, like as not, the kinds of people more likely to be on the receiving end of a nice fresh delivery of nerve agent, than bezzie mates with the hitman.
We should certainly bestow upon some key Russian diplomats the Royal Order Of The Size Nine. I feel confident that this will happen.
We should also apply the thumbscrews not to individuals, but to some of Vlad's favourite businesses, should they be plying the trade in our fair capital. I feel less confident that this will happen.
More perturbing than May's admittedly quite professional and statesmanlike response was the utterly wet and pathetic mewlings of Comrade Corbyn, who seems to be confusing the hyper-crony-capitalist state of the Russian Federation with his beloved USSR, the collapse of which in 1991 he seems to have not noticed.