badgerx16

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-russia-putin-replaced-staffers-over-fears-poison-him-report-2022-3?r=US&IR=T

Would you want to be on the first sailing with the new crew, who have no idea how the ships operate, haven't done ang safety training, have never been into the harbours, and probably don't speak the language in use at either end of the route.

According to some reports their contracts were with P&O Ferries(Jersey). Regardless, even Government Ministers are up in arms at the company's actions. I am amazed that anybody might think there is even the slightrst justification for the company's behaviour.

At the moment they are fighting the Russians. That is the only measure that matters.

It isn't the fact that people are being made redundant, that happens to lots of people - including me. It's the illegal way it is being done, or don't you believe in the rule of Law when it comes to employment rights ?

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Credit Putin with focussing our minds on alternative sources of oil ?

You do remember that Iran fought a war against Saddam Hussein for 8 years. Not sure they were that bothered by Desert Storm and it's successors.

I can form my own opinion rather than having it given to me.

The debt was not irrelevant, but it hung over for years until the Tories made things worse. Why do you think there were no hostages earlier if the debt had been around since the Islamic Revolution.

Any chance that Iranian oil suddenly starts arriving in UK refineries to make up the shortfall due to the boycott on Russian fuel.

Not seen anything on your favourite media feeds ?

But she was arrested and imprisoned whilst the UK had Tory Governments, and BoJo's idiotic and uninformed comments as FS made her plight worse.

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Alec

The Yanks are saying that the UK may have gone against an agreement, reiterated last week, that we would be working jointly to ensure that all UK and US dual nationals held in Iran would be treated as a job lot as far as negotiating their release.

On a lighter note, there is one group who must be coining it in during the invasion - the suppliers of the coloured duct tape used as identification markers.

Russia instigated the fighting in Donbas when the pro-Russian leadership of Ukraine was removed from power. The 'greivances' were manufactured and the 'separatists' were armed and led by Russians. As far as Ukraine is concerned it is an externally fuelled insurgency against a legitimate Government.

Seen in a bookshop

Joe Biden has been barred from entering Russia.

( Nervous ) Breakdown

The Prime Ministers of Poland, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic are going to go to Kyiv to meet President Zelensky. Unluckily, as it is an EU visit, Boris can't be invited.