It was legal

Through history, many of the most horrific acts carried out by man on his fellow man have been legal when committed.

Even the Holocaust and other crimes against Jews, political rivals, gays, the diabled, mentaly ill and so on, was all legal in Germany at the time.

Owning slaves in most countries, including the UK, or England as it was then, was legal. Even when against the law to own a slave in England, trading in enslaved human being was legal meaning the East Inia Company and the greater British Empire was able to explode in wealth.

This week focus has finally shifted to oligarchs and other of the most dreadful people around the world, who have come to London to wash their ill-gotten gains, hide it, buy property and generally keep it out of the hands of the countries they stole it from.

London is known as the washing machine, is, or was, Russian friendly. Oligarchs embedded themselves in society, bankrolled the Conservative Party, one was the head of a Home Counties constituency, until shame forced him to quit. And the PM himself enobled the son of a former KGB colonel. The Conservative Party advertised itself as Russian friendly, and made hay out of the financial services it and the City could offer the newly wealthy crminal elete from Moscow.

All this was legal. And still is.

Rather than admit this, Johnson, Patel and the rest blame "leftie lawyers" for representing the oligarchs in court proceedings, but Parliament, and this Government made is easy for the filthy rich to prosecute journalists and those who ask too many questions.

It isn't the lawyers who is the problem, but the lawyers.

Change the law. Which they say they will. Say they will, but talk is cheap where crime is lucrative.

Evidence was out there, on the public record how people like Roman Abramovich got his billions from, and his links to Putin. But he was allowed to come to London, buy Chelsea, no one asked any difficult questions. Depsite his friendship and loyalty to Putin, which has has to be to be allowed to keep his money, gained during the chaos in the chaos of the mid-90s.

The political elite chose to look the other way, creaming some off the top for themselves.

No questions asked.

But its never their fault.

Johnson has sat on a report into Conservative links to Russia for over two years, only commenting on a summary which misrepresents its findings, apparently.

But Lord Lebedev of Siberia, owner of the Evening Standard and London Live TV channel, son of a former KGB colonel: remember him and how he came to sit in the Upper Chamber and helps pass laws that we all have to obey. Governments and oligarchs don't have to, but then they can make their crimes legal.

And now all of the above has a bitter harvest as Russia under Putin has invaded Ukraine, they will all be more than embarassed by their links, so better point the finger as those who helped make their policies work. Lawyers and the courts.