badgerx16

Of course, since I changed it some of the comments above no longer make sense.

Good job they are not coming back down any time soon; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60804949 "Russian cosmonauts have arrived at the International Space Station wearing Ukrainian colours, in what appears to be a statement opposing the invasion."

"The extremists who successfully make it to Ukraine could return home with new weapons and combat experience under their belts — or stay in Ukraine, where they can further influence their countrymen online." Or.......stay in Ukraine as fertiliser for sunflowers.

UK Law determines that you are governed by the jurisdiction you work in, reagrdless of where your employer is based. The Government were told the day before - legally it has to be 45 days before.

There is a link earlier on this thread which Alexei76 posted that goes to a Department of Defense document about the threat mitigation projects - not what he thought it would say. EDIT: https://sam.gov/opp/0bd0de5ba5f94fc29d85b37a0a4b253b/view

They said this last week when they were pushing the bio-lab meme. The labs are old facilities where the US have been assisting in work on threat mitigation technologies.

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.