Bromley boy
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More likely it's a unit that's been given carte-blanche to do whatever they deem necessary while the central government is able to maintain plausible deniability: "We never authorised that action."
That’s precisely it - I don’t doubt for a second that the U.K. government has conducted similar extra judicial killings when it suits. Is poisoning someone that morally different to wiping them out in a drone strike? It may be “illegal”, or legally questionable, but it’s perhaps morally justified in some circumstances.
Can I honestly say I feel particularly sorry for the Skripals? I’m afraid I can’t. Maybe for the daughter at a push - although it seems likely she was involved in dodgy activities herself.
Mr Skripal sold his country down the river and got his just deserts in my view.
The fact that the nerve agent killed a woman who may have accidentally been exposed to it confirms it's lethal. It might be the Skripals were stronger or got more immediate medical attention than those who tried to kill them anticipated. The fact that the person who administered the nerve agent hasn't been found but dumped nerve agent seems to have been found by a member of the public suggests whoever did it didn't f**k up, if they f**ked up they'd have been caught with the nerve agent in their hands but they were away from the Skripals and dumped the nerve agent without anyone seeing anything.
I don’t think anyone with even a passing knowledge of the substance used, from what we have seen in the media, has any doubt that the agent in question is highly lethal in the correct doseage.
Wasn’t it something to do with rain dilluting the dosage the Skripals received? In that respect perhaps the Russians did “f*ck up”.
It’s sad that the latest fatality has happened - but goes to show that rummaging through rubbish for cigarette butts isn’t a sensible strategy.
Can I honestly say I care that much? Nope. I really can’t.