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To provide the majority of you with a British perspective on all this, i.e. what is going on in the UK - the British Government is really very annoyed at all this. A "hit" on a Soviet Double agent, on our own soil, using chemical weapons no less, has really riled things up. In fact I've rarely seen such unanimity amongst the population and the politicians.

Even arch-socialists are openly saying this is "Russia behaving badly" and a firm response is needed. Of course, the pinko commentators are trying to do some damage limitation by deflection or questioning the evidence, or the old saw of "building international concensus" first (which means not doing anything now) but it's not going down well.

Being cynical, I think there might be an element of deflection going on with Theresa May too. The government she leads is not a strong one and jumping on a cause like this, which everybody agrees upon, is doing wonderful things for her and its popularity.

Anyway, this is not going to go away and I expect there will be further British diplomatic action. There's talk of freezing Russian assets or pushing the investigations into alleged Russian money laundering operations in London. They will almost certainly call for support from their allies to do something too.

“There’s talk of freezing Russian assets or pushing the investigations into alleged Russian money laundering operations in London.”

That will require negotiating with the Muslim leadership in London...

"Of course, the pinko commentators are trying to do some damage limitation by deflection or questioning the evidence"

Yes, God forbid you ever do anything unreasonable like that. Question the evidence? Why that would be almost the same as showing a lack of faith in your government, wouldn't it?

Brits. The original sheep.