I LIKE this idea!

[Emrys]

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Duncan Jones
@ManMadeMoon

I think the US and EU may need to consider placing sanctions directly on those British government officials working to protect Russian oligarchs from UK sanctions.

Somebody help me here.

If various countries have been seizing Russian oligarchs' multi-million-pound yachts seemingly willy-nilly, then presumably arguing the legal tosses later, how the hell are there "legal problems" that have to be carefully negotiated before the UK government can seize oligarchs' London Moscow Road etc. mansions and other assets?

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Chris Bryant
@RhonddaBryant
This is what the UK should be doing.

Italy seizes yachts and villas from Russian oligarchs, say state sources

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/mar/05/italy-seizes-yachts-and-villas-from-russian-oligarchs-say-state-sources-ukraine-invasion-sanctions

[world wide wally]

1. I'm sure "Boris" has a say in it

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. How right you are: Keir Starmer calls for investigation into Evgeny Lebedev's peerage

UK spy agencies reframed warning about security risk of appointing media owner after Boris Johnson intervened

The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, has said parliament’s intelligence and security committee should investigate the circumstances surrounding Boris Johnson’s elevation of Evgeny Lebedev to the House of Lords.

The demand came after a fresh report that the intelligence agencies had reframed an assessment that Lebedev’s appointment would pose a security risk following an intervention from the prime minister in early 2020.

Speaking on BBC One’s Sunday Morning, Starmer said he was very concerned: “There’s at least the suggestion that the government and the prime minister were warned that there was a national security risk in this particular appointment.”

The Labour leader said the case should be referred to the all-party committee, which acts as a watchdog on intelligence matters, “so they can look into this story, this allegation, which is very serious, because of course, it’s a matter of national security”.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/06/evgeny-lebedev-peerage-investigation-keir-starmer-boris-johnson

[LeftishBrit]

4. Peerage apart, should non-citizens really be allowed to own British newspapers? (Lebedev's father)

Presumably this Lebedev is a citizen, but I don't think his father was.

[Karadeniz]

2. One would think so....