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Military expert tells Govt: ‘we warned you about Putin but you listened to the City instead’

"This long dark march to war was obvious," Air Commodore Carl Scott wrote in a brutal critique of the government.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2022-03-23 09:41
in Business
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Back in 2016 journalist Roberto Saviano, who is an expert in the Italian Mafia, said the UK is the most corrupt country in the world.

He said: “If I asked you what is the most corrupt place on Earth you might tell me well it’s Afghanistan, maybe Greece, Nigeria, the South of Italy and I will tell you it’s the UK.

“It’s not the bureaucracy, it’s not the police, it’s not the politics but what is corrupt is the financial capital.”

Warned

Well, it seems he wasn’t the only person who warned about the corrupt money flowing into the City of London.

Now in an extraordinary letter in the Financial Times, the UK’s former defence attaché at the Moscow embassy claimed the Government was warned about Vladimir Putin but were more interested in listening to the demands of the City for Russian money without asking questions where it came from.

In the letter, Air Commodore Carl Scott (retired) writes: “All was subjugated to the city. all served the interests of our lucrative status as a save haven for corrupt and corrupting wealth.”

Earlier in the piece, he said that he “served as the UK defence attache for five years, 2011-16, during which this long dark march to war was obvious.”

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Extraordinary letter in @ft from former UK defence attaché at Moscow embassy – we warned you about Putin but you listened to the City instead pic.twitter.com/E4UPTu98yl

— Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) March 23, 2022

Reactions

1.

We must clean up UK Politics now. Time to get rid of undue influence and lies. #cleanuppolitics https://t.co/Ok46ccHOCj

— Anon (@AnonNowar22) March 23, 2022

2.

And guess who else was ecstatic with the Brexit outcome? https://t.co/ibc9tLGiMv

— Paul Astell (@paul_astell) March 23, 2022

3.

“There’s an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast.”

“The values we were demanding of other nations had long since faded from our own actions.”

What a letter! https://t.co/9PEh5cokjn

— Szabolcs Panyi (@panyiszabolcs) March 23, 2022

4.

Agree. I first called Vladimir Putin a war criminal in @ObserverUK 22 years ago this month.

He has not changed. Londongrad and its enablers in the Conservative party liked his dirty gold.

A reckoning must be had. https://t.co/A4gZ1xudZo https://t.co/YXeaPoE9P7

— John Sweeney (@johnsweeneyroar) March 23, 2022

5.

Wow. Brutal critique.
"I despair at the decisions Putin has taken, but even more at the prospect of finding credible leadership at home in the UK among those who have compromised so long with his regime and the wealth it offered."
Air Commodore Carl Scott (retired) https://t.co/lVITxaJ18x

— Robert Llewellyn (@bobbyllew) March 23, 2022

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