Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
I'm unclear who exactly you are expecting to defend the Tory party. They're bad. I don't like them. What they did is only legal since they and their kind make the laws. They maintain power by being marginally more electable than labour. The same Labour who had eleven MPs who signed a letter blaming NATO on the situation in Ukraine. They are realistically the two options our system allows. And we celebrate our Head of State overseeing this for 70 years.

And doing a few illegal things is hardly a framework for doing many illegal things - Blair's war in Iraq hardly created a common law framework for what he did.

So the Tory government gets to boast about the few sanctions they imposed, lying about their leading the world in this as they always do, whilst not laying a hand on those who've been giving them money. Party above country, supposed principles being held to explain their MO of helping their friends whilst screwing the country over.

The register of foreign owned property won't come into place until autumn 2023 at the earliest, plenty of time for oligarchs to dispose of their properties and move their assets back to somewhere unreachable. Thanks to Navalny, we know of at least some of these oligarch-owned properties. Which are untouched even now.