In tRuble

I can't remember the exact day, but bear with me.

At somepoint in the last decade, the COnservative Party was verging on being solvent.

From what I remember there was a chance they were going to lose their HQ.

So, clearly, something had to be done.

Their traditional support had come from business, but we all know what Johnson thinks of business.

So, the party went searching of money, and found lots in Russia.

Russia, they told us, back the Conservatives because they trust the Tories.

That has not last well, at all

Johnson enobled the son of a KGB Colonel and the rubles flowed in, as well into the City where it was washed into legitimate currency.

All this was done in plain sight.

All well and good if Russia wasn't a threat.

Johnson's response to the Ukraine invasion has been, how can I put this, weak? And only changed due to peer pressure or what the EU or the wider international community has done.

Even now, Ukraine citizens have to apply for visas, though yesterday they didn't if they had family here.

Remember, the same thing happened in Kabul where visas had to be obtained before being allowed to board a flight, even as the Taliban surround the airport.

This is what the Government thinks of those who helped our Armed Forces over two decades. And this is how it thinks it should treat those fleeing the once Red Army. Outside Liverpool Street station there is a statue to remind us of the Kindertransport of Jewish children before WWII.

There is no compassion in this Government's heart, just domatic resistance to do what is the humane thing.

Fear too now that their links to Russian money and influence will emerge. They have been trashing the reputation of anyone who gets too close.