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Jim Grace Profile picture
@mac_puck
Jul 23, 2020 • 20 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
Does anyone else feel a bit disappointed that the ISC report mentioned "9 Russians" but did not name them?

Actually you can find out quite a lot with a bit of googling...
This might not be "the 9", but I bet there is some crossover....

@fascinatorfun @BenPBradshaw @peterjukes
1. Lubov Chernukhin, wife of Vladimir, one-time Putin crony & head of Sberbank, who has been charged with multimillion dollar fraud.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2… Image
2. Sergei Romashov, who is linked to Putin. His frontman at Rise Capital is Gerardo Lopez, who donated 400K to the Tories 2 months before the ref. theguardian.com/politics/2016/… Image
3. Alexander Temerko. London based Russian Oligarch who once boasted of "owning" 37 Tory MPs.

desmog.co.uk/alexander-teme… Image
4. Lev Mikheev, Russian Investment Banker and Hedge Fund Manager.
buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/ro… ImageImage
5. Alexander Machkevitch ( Kazakh Billionaire with history of bribary accusations and sex scandal ) /Anna Machkevitch /Nadezda Rodicheva / Mohamed Amersi

All connected through company directorships.

standard.co.uk/business/sfo-i… theredroar.com/2019/06/hunt-p… ImageImage
6. Dmytro Firtash. Jesus, where do I start?
Ukrainian Billionaire, indicted for extradition to US, linked to Russian mafia boss-of-bosses, Mogilevich, employed Dom Cummings brother in law to run UK Firtash foundation, employed new centrury media for PR

gangsterismout.com/p/dmytro-firta… Image
6-continued. Richard Cook linked to Ukrainian organised crime, maybe Firtash?, maybe Mogelivich?, certainly the 435K of Vote Leave "dark money" that was routed through the DUP to avoid disclosure. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe… ImageImageImage
7. Len Blavatnik - US based Russian Billionaire with links to Russian official - knighted by Theresa May for no discernible reason. qz.com/1521847/major-… Image
8. Evgeny Lebedev - oligarch media who may have Kompromat on Boris Johnson. Son of senior KGB man.
theguardian.com/media/2019/nov…
9. Alexander Knaster Former CEO of Alfa bank who has contributed more than £455K to the Tories

thecanary.co/uk/analysis/20…
10. Mikhail Fridman - Ukrainian oligarch who has been accused of: fraud, corruption, murder, money laundering.
But, worse than that, he also contributed more than £400K to the Tories. wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach…
11. Sergei Nalobin - son of senior FSB officer and known to be close to Boris Johnson and senior Tories. Helped Matthew Elliot set up the Conservative Friends of Russia. Expelled after the Skripal affair.
thesun.co.uk/news/5813975/n…
12. Andrey Borodin - Russian financier accused of £220M fraud - Boris Johnson dinner companion and ilegal Tory donor.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…

belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/tories…
13. Oleg Deripraska. Alleged money-launderer for Putin, subject of US sanctions, linked to prominent Tories Feldman, Osborne and Rotshchild

riskscreen.com/kyc360/news/of…
14. Vasily Shestakov. Putin's Judo Partner and oldest friend. Another client of New Century Media.
theguardian.com/politics/ng-in…
15. Andrey Guryev, owner of London's 2nd largest house (after Buck. Pal). Fertilizer billionaire close to Putin and Temerko, named in US sanctions list.

Tx @fascinatorfun for the tip.
16. Viktor Mikhailovitch Fedotov riskscreen.com/kyc360/news/ru…
Secretive UK-based Russian billionaire, linked to Lukoil. Ultimate owner of Aquind, he was given anonymity by Companies House for no obvious reason. Image
17. George Piskov, Russian banker, chairman of the board of directors of Uniastrum Bank and of Protobase Laboratories - a money transfer company

£17,378, including a £10,000 donation direct to party headquarters in 2012.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
18. Suleiman Kerimov funnelled $8m to Chernukhin the eve of the Brexit vote theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

Russian Billionaire with links to Putin, sanctioned in 2018 by US treasury. Standard Oligarch CV: Sberbank, Gazprom, Uralkali, indictments for tax evasion, money laundering etc

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Aug 7


In 2016, the brexit referendum was a petri dish for the US General Election. The same people - Cambridge Analytica, Thiel, Bannon , the Mercers & Putin - ran the same plays and won both times.

What if the UK riots are a dry run for the US election?

1/newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
The UK riots show that if enough fuel has been poured, a small spark can start a big fire.

In the UK politicians like Farage, Cameron, May, Braverman and Patel and newspapers like the Telegraph, Mail, Express and Sun, for years splashed the petrol of anti-immigrant hatred.

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Eventually it took one tweeted lie - that the murderer of 3 little girls was a Muslim , "illegal" immigrant ,and a recent small boats arrival - to set the spark.

A small ecosystem of bought-and-paid-for RW influencers quickly fanned the flames, and the rest is history.

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Jan 17
Brexit has a new trilemma, even worse than "Leave the SM & CU AND No NI/IE border AND no NI/GB border".

Now it is "Growth AND low immigration AND stay out of the SM &CU"

If Brexit just makes us poorer, parliament after parliament, decade after decade, it cannot stand.

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It may take some time; the English have an unmatched ability to keep going long after everyone - including themselves - can see it's not working. (Watching a retired bank manager taking on a space smaller than his car can be hours of fun - or piano vs. staircase half-landing.)
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But eventually people will have enough of getting poorer and the prospect of getting ever-poorer, when there is an alternative just there for the taking.

The trilemma faced by Brexiters like Bill Cash, ranting about immigrants, is their red lines on immigration & SM/CU are

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Dec 12, 2023
I have seen various estimates of how much extra peak demand would be added to the UK grid if all 23 M gas-fired Domestic Boilers were swapped for ASHP's overnight.

The average UK dwelling is 90m2 and typically has radiators sized on rule of thumb at 100W/m2...

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So... in theory, if all the Heat Pumps were working at 82 deg flow/ 71 deg C Return, and all the radiators in the UK were simultaneously putting out 9 KW per dwelling, that comes to 207GW of heat. Which on a very cold day would require 100GW of Electricity. (Shock horror!)

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But that is nonsense. In reality, most ASHPs operate at 55 Flow / 50 Return and at those water temperatures radiators that emit 9kW at 82/71 will emit about 4kW.

So... what if we keep the old boilers instead of replacing them and just retrofit an ASHP in series?

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Nov 30, 2023
A couple of days back I tweeted how the Government now permits employers to pay migrant workers in shortage occupations 20% less than the going rate.
(Which Article 45 of TFEU would have prevented, before Brexit)

Let's see if, the BBC covered it?

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Yes: they covered it back on 17th July.


How did they cover it?
Badly. Anyone reading it would think it just applies to builders, carpenters and fishing industry - people not like "us" (managers, engineers, scientists, actuaries, vets etc)

2/bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Anyone using the BBC for information would think it just affects some horny-handed types on building sites and - who knows - maybe bring back the good old days of Polish plumbers who could re-do your ensuite at 1 weeks notice.

They wouldn't think it might affect THEMSELVES

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Nov 27, 2023
Either the Tories have not thought through the implications of the post-brexit immigration rules... or they have thought them through all too well.

I have a nasty inkling of what they might be up to, but it takes a bit of explaining.

Let's start with "before brexit"...

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Article 45 TFEU is a fundamental right of workers which entails the abolition of any discrimination based on nationality as regards remuneration. Plain-speak: an employer could not underpay an immigrant from Italy, say, just on the basis that they were not from the UK.

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Prior to brexit the majority of migrant workers were from EEA countries and this rule protected them.

It was not legal for a UK employer to bring in "cheap foreign workers" to undercut UK staff, and as result immigration from the EU was heavily skewed toward the jobs...

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Nov 14, 2023
Here we have Electricity and Gas prices in Euro per 100kWh, in February 2023, throughout Europe.

Where it gets REALLY interesting is when you compare the ***ratio*** of Electricity price to Gas price: See next tweet.

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The UK has by far the highest ratio of Electricity price to Gas price.

This is a result of Tory Government policies:
1. Gas for electricity incurs a Carbon Tax, whereas gas for boilers does not.
2. The price of ALL electricity is set by the price of Gas-fired electricity.

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.... which, of course, includes the Carbon Tax!

3. The government loads "policy" costs - such as the warm homes discount for poorer households - disproportionately onto electricity bills; £140 uplift for electricity vs £34 for gas.

Why does it matter?

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