Compromised position

Faced with a funding shortfall, the Conservative Party decided the best solution was funding from Russia. I am no expert in the area of the funding of political parties, but this is sailing pretty close as to what is legal.

But even if it were against election law, the sanctions are so weak and being in power meant that any findings could be ignored or watered down. Or, as the Tories are promosing, castrating the Electoral Commission.

But even after that, comes the compromises that have to be made in areas like foreign policy once you accept millions and millions in blood soaked rubles, it restricts the actions in speaking out against Russia, or any other country you accept money from.

In short, it restricts a Government from doing wat is right or what it should be, so you see a gradual move by Johnson in introducing sanctions, always behind the EU's action curve, and you have to ask why, if the whole point of Brexit was to make us more nimble in such policy areas, why could 27 nations act quicker, and more strongly and Brexit Britain?

In the Commons yesterday, a Conservative MP "named and shamed" lawyers who have acted on the behalf of Russian billionaires in the UK courts, using parliamentrary privillige in doing so, while ignoring his fellow Conservative MPs who took hundreds of thousands of pounds in payments from the same persons.

In law, every person has a right to accuse or the accused to defend themselves. The Conservatve Party in 2013 enacted a policy to all Russians to use the UK courts for legal services, and now an MP attacks the legal profession in that it made this policy work.

MPs make laws, if Russians using the UK courts to shut down journalists or dissidents, then that privillige could have been closed down. But wasn't. Instead attacking lawyers who have previously undertaken public cases to limit Government ilegal actions.

Democracy is groaning under the strain this Government and the Conservative Party his put it under, and yet it is never their fault, always someone elses.

Johnson actually made the son of a KGB officer a law, and Patel is somehow concerned Russian spoies coming in with Ukranian refugees? They're already here, darling.