Jacob Rees-Mogg's claim about Russian money backfires spectacularly

[Celerity]

Jacob Rees-Mogg has been left red-faced after inadvertently revealing the “massive scale of dirty Russian money lodged in London”.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19972806.jacob-rees-moggs-claim-russian-money-backfires-spectacularly/



The Tory has recently been given the prestigious title of UK Government Brexit Opportunities Minister – though nobody has been able to figure out what his job actually entails.

We’re pretty sure Rees-Mogg isn’t supposed to be drawing attention to his party’s links to Russian cronies, however. But that’s exactly what he did on Saturday after bragging about Downing Street’s highly criticised response to the war in Ukraine.

Rees-Mogg shared an image on Twitter that shows the total value of Russian bank assets sanctioned by the UK, US and EU. The graph shows the UK has introduced measures against £258.8 billion worth of assets, while the US and EU lag behind respectively on £240bn and £38.8bn. “The City of London leads the way in the effects of sanctioning Russian banks,” the Tory minister boasted.

Link to tweet

Yet SNP president Michael Russell couldn’t help but notice a flaw in his argument. He replied: “You didn’t mean to make this point, but all this confirms is the massive scale of dirty Russian money lodged in London. So with apologies to Burns; “Bought and sold for Russian gold “sic a parcel o’ rogues in a nation.”

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my add

Sic a Parcel o' Rogues is a Scottish folk song whose lyrics are taken from a poem written by Robert Burns in 1791, protesting bitterly about the Union of Scotland and England in 1707.

Fareweel to a' our Scottish fame,
Fareweel our ancient glory
Fareweel ev'n to the Scottish name,
Sae famed in martial story
Now Sark rins over Solway sands
An Tweed rins to the ocean
To mark where England's province stands -
Sic a parcel o rogues in a nation!

What force or guile could not subdue
Through many warlike ages
Is wrought now by a coward few
For hireling traitor's wages
The English steel we could disdain
Secure in valour's station
But English gold has been our bane -
Sic a parcel o rogues in a nation!

O would, or I had seen the day
That Treason thus could sell us,
My auld grey head had lien in clay
Wi Bruce and loyal Wallace!
But pith and power, till my last hour
I'll mak this declaration
We're bought and sold for English gold -
Sic a parcel o rogues in a nation!

[uponit7771]

1. Fuckin WOW !!! Really UK ?! They're worse per capita than the Republicans in the US !!! Damn,

... no wonder these guys were winning anything !!

I have ... NO DOUBT ... that there are strong financial ties between the GZP and Putrid ... NO DOUBT ... same in UK.

VERY strong ties between Tories (GZP equivalent in UK) and Putrid it looks like

[yardwork]

4. That's how the campaign for BREXIT was financed - by Putin.

And the Tories made billions.

[hatrack]

2. Always a pleasure to see this inbred clown step on his dick . . .

. . . . again.

[tanyev]

3. Wow, and total bank assets in U.S. and EU would surely be quite a bit higher than the UK,

so a graph of percentage would be even more lopsided.

I knew about Russian influence behind the scenes in the UK, but it's just been in the last few days I heard that London has been nicknamed Londongrad for some time. 'Funny' how that Brexit vote to Take Back Control did not include kicking out the Russians, too.

[MaryMagdaline]

5. Thank you Celerity for explaining the last lines.

Quite the Burn.