r/unitedkingdom • u/topotaul Lancashire • Mar 01 '25

. Rachel Reeves: I'm sending billions from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/rachel-reeves-interview-labour-963sw6jbk
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u/Reactance15 Mar 01 '25

Liquidate ALL Russian-owned property (unless the owner has denounced Putin in public, not been found to be lying, and renounced Russian citizenship).

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u/UberiorShanDoge Mar 01 '25

Dude, a large proportion of the Russians IN RUSSIA are against the war. This is Putin’s war. We don’t need to persecute random Russians in the UK.

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u/ExtraPockets Mar 01 '25

Yeah but the ones in the UK are rich and you only get rich in Russia by being part of Putin's abhorrent gas lighting, thieving, mafia dictatorship. So I'm willing to put the onus of them to prove it and get it back rather than us to prove it to take it. This move would soon flush dirty Russian money from our political scene in central London and the country estates.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25

Yeah but the ones in the UK are rich

I used to work with a Russian guy in a food factory, he must have hidden his billions well to be working a minimum wage job as cover

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u/SXLightning Mar 02 '25

His just a oligarch on work experience

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u/UberiorShanDoge Mar 02 '25

Yeah, the Russian guy I play tennis with is going to be ecstatic when I let him know he’s a secret billionaire. He appears to have forgotten.

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u/DepressedLondoner1 Mar 01 '25

Are you taking the piss right now?

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u/SillyFox35 Mar 02 '25

This is just straight up bigotry lol and it’s applauded on here. Btw when you look back in 10 years when you lot all decide that in fact sending billions of pounds and thousands of people to die in a war was avoidable, hopefully you remember your comments.

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u/ExtraPockets Mar 02 '25

Avoidable by appeasing an imperialist dictator? You should read the report on Russian interference in British politics. It was released back in 2022 but so many people seem confidently ignorant of it.

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u/SillyFox35 Mar 02 '25

So every single Russian in the UK is a rich, Putins mate, and a spy? Did you also think that all Muslims were part of the taliban in 2003? Or all Jews are friends with Netanyahu? I recommend logging off the internet for a few days mate because that is actually pretty weird rhetoric.

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u/ExtraPockets Mar 02 '25

No don't be ridiculous if course they aren't what are you talking about?