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Shandy_top_89 said:
It is mad, but just worth noting in reply to calls to boycott P&O Cruises that the two companies are unrelated.
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P&O cruises are part of Carnival, but if some of the collateral from the P&O Ferries situation is a reduction in P&O cruises business, then so be it. I started my career as an engineer cadet with P&O in Southampton in 1975, and I`m thoroughly ashamed to be associated with the name right now. Also, I don`t see how a complete new crew can be hired and safely operate the vessels immediately.
 
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The Global Magnitsky Act is named after Sergei Magnitsky who died in prison in Russia after investigating corrupt tax officials. The Act empowers the US to seize the assets of those guilty of human rights violations. No prizes for guessing who the 8 who voted against the reauthorisation support.

Bill Browder was a friend of Magnitsky’s and lobbied the Obama administration to pass the original Act.
 
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The Global Magnitsky Act is named after Sergei Magnitsky who died in prison in Russia after investigating corrupt tax officials. The Act empowers the US to seize the assets of those guilty of human rights violations. No prizes for guessing who the 8 who voted against the reauthorisation support.

Bill Browder was a friend of Magnitsky’s and lobbied the Obama administration to pass the original Act.
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Good way of identifying which representatives are Kremlin agents.
 
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From the BBC .




Lord Barwell, who served as Theresa May's chief of staff in No 10, said: "Apart from the bit where voting in a free and fair referendum isn't in any way comparable with risking your life to defend your country against invasion, and the awkward fact the Ukrainians are fighting for the freedom to join the EU, this comparison is bang on."

Ukraine applied for fast-track membership of the European Union last month, shortly after the Russian invasion.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday he had spoken to the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and expected progress to be made on its application in the coming months.

Among those to criticise Mr Johnson's comments was Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, chair of the defence select committee, who tweeted: "Comparing the Ukrainian people's fight against Putin's tyranny to the British people voting for Brexit damages the standard of statecraft we were beginning to exhibit."

And the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Edcalled the prime minister a "national embarrassment", adding: "To compare a referendum to women and children fleeing Putin's bombs is an insult to every Ukrainian. He is no Churchill: he is Basil Fawlty."
 
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