WHILE Germany and Italy impound yachts, legislation in the Commons today gives foreign miscreants a punishing timetable to follow:
JUST 30 DAYS to conclude business arrangements in the UK, hammering Putin-linked oligarchs by forcing them to accept below-market prices for their assets
JUST 90 DAYS to apply for exemption on the grounds of ‘the interests of the economic wellbeing of the UK’, a loophole no Tory MP would ever exploit to protect a mate
JUST SIX MONTHS to register UK-owned properties, hitting war-backing billionaires who now only have until mid-November to transfer deeds to a network of shell companies based in Jersey and the British Virgin Islands
JUST NINE MONTHS to get a golden passport from the Home Office, who by this same deadline will have granted a generous 300 temporary work visas to Ukranian refugees
JUST 18 MONTHS to make a substantial contribution to the UK’s future in the form of a political donation to the natural party of governemt, whoever that should be
JUST TWO YEARS for the first court case to be won against an Unexplained Wealth Order, effectively rendering every provision in this bill completely toothless and unenforcable
JUST TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS for all this nonsense to blow over just in time for Johnson’s re-election campaign in which he will take full credit for the victory in Ukraine or not mention it if Ukraine lost
JUST EIGHT YEARS until Nigel Farage is given a full state funeral in Moscow
JUST TEN YEARS until an official enquiry into corruption at every level of British government during the period 2010-2030 is announced, the result of which not be published for reasons of state security.
