Each one should be questioned IN DETAIL about what they saw when and what steps (in writing) did each take to prevent such grossly untruthful messages infiltrating social media.
Liam Fox
Iain Duncan Smith
Dominic Raab
Michael Gove
Boris Johnson
Steve Baker
Chris Grayling
3/
Priti Patel
Lord Lawson
Gisela Stuart
Matthew Elliot
Andrea Leadsom
Dominic Cummings
Lord Forsyth
Theresa Villiers
Frank Field
John Whittingdale
4/. What does “Governance” mean if it is not to oversee and accept or reject key messages in a campaign and the spending of money?
What did people like Paul Stephenson know, saw and approved?
What was the approval process for comms?
He was the Vote Leave Comms Director
5/ This is what he said about the critical importance of two lies. The £350 mill pow for the NHS and Turkey joining the EU.
Who made the ads?
Under whose direction?
Who signed them off?
What did the Governance Committee see and approve?
Don’t tell me they didn’t see this stuff
6/ Stephenson said: "Keep it simple - I think by the end of the referendum people were talking about our simple messages like the £350m a week figure and Turkey joining the EU; we used language people could use in the street or in the pub."
Those FB ads were not just fake news so squarely in your remit, but MUST have come under the scrutiny of the Governance Committeee that were to meet every week to DO the job of governance.
11/ However uncomfortable it might be each one on that committee should be questioned by your committee and the police.
ALL their emails should be seized for the whole period.
Any attempt to delete or otherwise conceal them should be taken to be Perverting the Course of Justice.
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U.K. Sanctions five Russian banks :- Rossiya, IS Bank, General Bank, Promsvyazbank & the Black Sea Bank AND sanctions would be applied to billionaire oligarchs Gennady Timchenko, Boris Rotenberg & Igor Rotenberg as three "very high net worth individuals". news.sky.com/story/ukraine-…
“Any assets they hold in the UK will be frozen, the individuals concerned will be banned from travelling here, and we will prohibit all UK individuals and entities from having any dealings with them," Mr Johnson said.”
Aligning with previous US sanctions.
“Mr Timchenko is a major shareholder in Rossiya, while the Rotenbergs are described by the Foreign Office as having close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Boris Rotenberg is a major shareholder of SMP Bank, while Igor Rotenberg is invested in Russia's transport sector”
Shutting out Russia from SWIFT would not be a surgical strike
“Swift’s full title is The Society for Worldwide Interbank Telecommunication. That highlights the satisfying ostracism involved in expelling Russia. But it also hints at flaws in the tactic.” ft.com/content/e2e174…
“Firstly, Swift is not a full-blooded payments network. Nor is Swift, as sometimes claimed, a mere messaging system. True, its core utility resides in around 42m encrypted instructions that 11,500 users in 200 countries exchange daily to co-ordinate payments.”
“But these messages embody something grander: mutual trust based on common standards.
Expelling Russia from Swift would not isolate Russia financially, as proponents imply. Nor would it be as futile as opponents imagine.”
When reading this thread remember that “Euromaidan” is a reference to a wave of demonstrations and protest starting Nov 2013 that took place in the Ukraine when the then Russian-leaning President, Yanukovych suspended the signing of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
The reference to Putin regretting Lenin’s ceding of independence to various Russian States in 2017 (inc Finland) was interesting given the toppling of the Lenin Statue in Kyiv formed part of that protest.
There was a 2014 agreement on Settlement of Political Crisis in Ukraine
This occurred under the mediation of both the EU and the Russian Federation. Whilst Yanukovych and members of the then opposition signed it and it was witnessed by German, Polish and French Officials for the EU, Vladimir Lukin, representing Russia, refused to sign it.
Why we should ALL be paying attention to Putin’s Imperialist anti democratic speech
“Now he said out loud that Lenin made an error in 1917 when he let the former Russian territories "go." One of the countries that gained independence from Russia in 1917, by the way, was Finland.
Russia has already breached agreements for non aggression by its incursions into Georgia and the Ukraine. Hardly surprising that other bordering countries, eg Finland and Sweden are reconsidering earlier decisions not to try and join NATO.
When I read the thread I am also reminded how far the U.K. has travelled towards an autocracy ..one persons with absolute power. The steps along the road towards it. Look at Hungary.
Bosnia is still finding bodies from a genocide some leaders claim never happened - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/…
“SREBRENICA, Bosnia — The gravestones stretch for nearly a quarter mile — 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys, slaughtered in a matter of days — but the region’s top politician says the coffins are empty.”
“The local mayor has said some of the purported victims are still alive. The commander who led the massacre is portrayed as a hero on posters that periodically appear near the cemetery.”
@mrjamesob at c28 minutes in suggests that Covid is “much much milder than flu’”
Perhaps he would explain how 10k people died of Covid between 17-12-21 - 4-2-22 (Death Cert data) despite SOME measures still in place to reduce infection?