[Aptorian]

Couple fell ill over the course of the day, believed to have come in contact with the same nerve agent that was used earlier this year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44719639

That this happens during the world cup has to be some cosmic dice coming up snake eyes.

[Macros]

unless some links in their past are shown I would tag this as more likely linked to the Skripals attack.

interesting how Russian TV made sarcastic remarks BEFORE the Novichok had been named as cause of death as to how Russia would doubtlessly be blamed.

watch the conspiracy nuts descend on this one

[Cause]

Scary stuff. If this is still left over nerve agent from the first attack it shows how dangerous this crap is and why it was a line that should not have been crossed. I mean seriously, a bullet would have done just as well. If it was Russia, I see no reason to doubt it was, I wonder if they will face even further backlash.

[Macros]

nothing will happen

[Tiste Simeon]

Macros, on 05 July 2018 - 01:10 PM, said:

nothing will happen

This is my go to response with anything this government does now.

[Maark Abbott]

Tiste Simeon, on 05 July 2018 - 01:25 PM, said:

Macros, on 05 July 2018 - 01:10 PM, said:

nothing will happen

This is my go to response with anything this government does now.

Funny how this has happened right when May was looking beleaguered again though isn't it?

[Tiste Simeon]

You mean to say that Russia might be trying to mess this country up? I'm shocked!

[worry]

Has anyone checked to see whether it was a nerve agent or they simply ingested normal British cuisine?

[Gorefest]

It was definitely a nerve agent. Of the four people affected, only one has died so far.

[Maark Abbott]

Tiste Simeon, on 10 July 2018 - 08:59 AM, said:

You mean to say that Russia might be trying to mess this country up? I'm shocked!

No, more along the lines of "Things aren't going well for May and very suddenly the Russians do something bad!" Seems awfully coincidental. Diversionary, almost.

[Werthead]

Maark Abbott, on 13 July 2018 - 07:39 AM, said:

No, more along the lines of "Things aren't going well for May and very suddenly the Russians do something bad!" Seems awfully coincidental. Diversionary, almost.

Given the normal ability of the British government to hide things that should stay hidden (i.e. non-existent), there's no way this was an inside job.

What did happen is that this couple found the bottle that the poison was originally carried in. The woman who died picked it up and got a heavy dose, far more than the Skripals themselves, which is why she died (Novichok has an active lethal life cycle of months). Despite that tragedy, it means the police now have the delivery mechanism so they can start putting together an idea of who carried out the attack and what the precise motive was.

[Maark Abbott]

Werthead, on 16 July 2018 - 09:53 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 13 July 2018 - 07:39 AM, said:

No, more along the lines of "Things aren't going well for May and very suddenly the Russians do something bad!" Seems awfully coincidental. Diversionary, almost.

Given the normal ability of the British government to hide things that should stay hidden (i.e. non-existent)

Oh, like the plan for Brexit?

[Tiste Simeon]

They've done a really good job at hiding their plan unless of course you're suggesting that they never had a plan and are incredibly incompetent and ridiculous??

[Gorefest]

Of course there is a plan. The plan from the beginning has been to force a complete and total break with the EU, i.e. 'crash out' of the union. However, they know that this would not go down well with a lot of Brits, so they are putting on this big show pretending to work very hard at finding a way to arrange an amicable break with a safe transition period etc, but those evil EU bureaucrats are not cooperating. Keep that up for a couple of years and voila, hard Brexit accomplished. The main frustration is that there is nobody in the opposition that is able (or willing) to stop this evident car crash from happening.

[Tiste Simeon]

Yeah it's pretty much disaster capitalism plain and simple. And the idiotic gammons just keep shouting about it because they keep believing the lies.

[Maark Abbott]

Gorefest, on 17 July 2018 - 11:29 AM, said:

stop this evident car crash from happening.

*quietly hides part 36 offers*