Faster justice
HAMMERING UK-based Russian oligarchs is an urgent weapon against Putin.
Why isn’t the Government acting with the pace it needs?
The Government must act with pace to hammer UK-based Russian oligarchs[/caption]
The EU has sanctioned 25 already. It is way ahead of us.
We know Downing Street is hamstrung by the prospect of legal cases in London courts — and grasping lawyers still willing to represent Putin’s cronies.
But unless Whitehall’s sluggish legal teams pull their finger out these tycoons will have fled with their billions before we’ve had a chance to seize them.
Granted, they will have to live out their years in an economic wasteland cut off from the world. But still.
Boris Johnson deserves credit for his handling of the Ukraine catastrophe, for championing the crippling sanctions on the Kremlin regime and for the aid he has poured in to the resistance to it.
His Government has still been far too slow to go after the madman’s mates.
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NOT that Putin will care, but his lunacy has just four backers globally: Three other vile dictators and his puppet in Belarus.
They are beyond shame.
Alexander Lukashenko – Putin’s puppet in Belarus[/caption]
But let us not overlook those nations who abstained in yesterday’s historic vote as the rest of the UN overwhelmingly condemned the Ukraine atrocity.
What more would it take to stir China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa from their indifference over a gangster state slaughtering its neighbours in an unprovoked war to steal their country?
Some of them still receive UK foreign aid. Let’s end it.
And India is one of our major hopes for future free trade and close friendship.
Yet it refuses to criticise Putin, its main weapons supplier, even as he threatens the world with nuclear war.
A simple chance to do the right thing. India failed.
Get drilling
THE Tories’ surrender on fracking always made little sense. Now it makes none.
In this unstable new world with gas prices soaring we must wean ourselves off eye-wateringly costly imports, as the EU must end its reliance on Russia.
The apparently plentiful shale gas under our feet can tide us over on the journey towards Net Zero[/caption]
The apparently plentiful shale gas under our feet can tide us over on the journey towards Net Zero.
Producing it will be greener and cheaper than using imports — and provide energy security.
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng instead puts his faith in the North Sea, rules out fracking and performs intellectual contortions trying to justify it.
We’d have more respect if he simply admitted the Government is too scared to counter the eco lobby and its monstrously exaggerated safety concerns.
Germany is changing tack on energy. So should we.
Downing Street must face down the fracking scaremongers and U-turn.
