Wag the dog Brit style. The whole story unfolded during the rape gang and Brexit crisis wiping it out from headlines.
Excellent point.
It’s actually astounding to me how many people are buying the narrative on Skripal, especially here on FR. Aside from the absence of any evidence whatsoever, Russian intelligence would quite literally have to be run by retarded monkeys in order for them to even consider an operation of this sort.