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Apr 19, 2022 14:45:28 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Apr 19, 2022 14:45:28 GMT
Lord Lebedev of Leatherhead? How the hell did the KGB get an operative into the House of Lords?
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Apr 19, 2022 18:09:47 GMT
Post by JoeP on Apr 19, 2022 18:09:47 GMT
I may be guessing wildly here, but I would say ... money.
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Apr 19, 2022 21:35:29 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Apr 19, 2022 21:35:29 GMT
So...You folks just let anybody with money buy their way into power and influence? What have you become? Americans?
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Apr 19, 2022 23:05:39 GMT
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Post by tangent on Apr 19, 2022 23:05:39 GMT
Lebedev's father was a KGB agent and because of that, I guess, he was considered a security risk. Nevertheless, Boris Johnson recommended him for the House of Lords because he had donated a large sum of money to the Conservative party. It's as bad as that. So...You folks just let anybody with money buy their way into power and influence? What have you become? Americans? The Conservative party admires America, methinks.
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Apr 20, 2022 3:05:44 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Apr 20, 2022 3:05:44 GMT
]The Conservative party admires America, methinks. My condolences.
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Apr 20, 2022 22:21:09 GMT
Post by Moose on Apr 20, 2022 22:21:09 GMT
I seem to have missed something .. who has been elected where, and why?
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Post by tangent on Apr 20, 2022 23:43:23 GMT
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Apr 21, 2022 9:51:58 GMT
Post by tangent on Apr 21, 2022 9:51:58 GMT
Another Tory donor, Mrs Lubov Chernukhin, has links to a Russian oligarch who has been sanctioned. And her husband, Vladimir, was in the Russian government between 2000 and 2002 and was confirmed in 2018 to still have "excellent" relationships with prominent members of the Russian establishment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61080537
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Apr 21, 2022 15:50:59 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Apr 21, 2022 15:50:59 GMT
Here, it's Oleg Deripaska, prime mover of Rusal, the Russian aluminium giant. He was the front man to promise a $200 million aluminium plant in Kentucky, prior to the last national election. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/08/19/senate-report-russian-investor-braidy-mill-kremlin-proxy/5607217002/Why Kentucky? Well, it IS where the esteemed US Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul represent. Just feeding the trolls, it was. Given the behavior of a LOT of leading Republican lawmakers, I suspect that this incident is but the tip of a much larger unseen griftberg.
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