Spying is a very dangerous game.

[saoirse]

Well if it isn't in the Mail and quoted by Boris, it might be true

[Rose Cole]

As it must be around 6 weeks since the "incident", do any members have any information regarding the police investigation and the nationwide hunt for the perpetrators? As the nerve agent is one of the most dangerous ever developed, one would have though no stone would have been left unturned to try and get to the bottom of this and to catch the said criminals.

Photo fit pictures, descriptions, appeals for witnesses etc. would reassure me that the authorities were acting with all due haste.

[Akasya]

Hawley Griffin

Steve

[Jaycey]

Originally Posted by Akasya

Hawley Griffin

Steve

Phew, thanks Steve but just in case that isn't understood try 'Хоули Гриффин'.

[Rose Cole]

Originally Posted by Akasya

Hawley Griffin

Steve

Obviously you have not seen him yet lol.

[Akasya]

A figment of the imagination .

Steve

[Rose Cole]

To try and prevent this ressurected post from slipping off the radar, I thought it would be a good opportunity to summarise some importnant facts:

1. The Skripals and DS Bailey are not dead. That is incompatible with the claims of Novichok poisoning. Either they were willing actors in a subterfuge or they were genuine victims of an attack of some description. Don't forget that HMG have consistently said that this Novichok nerve agent was up to 10x deadlier than anything else. Death therefore is quick and certain on exposure to the tiniest amount.

*see below*

2. The police investigation has been subject to a complete media blackout. This is unprecedented. There are ALWAYS police press conferences calling for witnesses, issuing photofits of people they want to trace, telling us the victims’ stories etc.

3. I am not aware of one person in Salisbury who has put photos on social media of the unusual activity there. Not one peripheral player has been interviewed in the press. No neighbours have been pestered for their stories. There has been no “DS Bailey: my nerve agent hell” story lol.

4. Yulia Skripal was the most famous patient in the country. Imagine that scenario for any other patient and given that there wasn't a scrum of media photographers hanging round trying to get a shot of her leaving hospital. Nothing.

5. I don't think that in the history of the UK, has a high profile crime investigation unfolded with absolute 100% silence across all these issues.
It is inconceivable that this could not happen if the story we have been told, was true.

6. Either the Skirpals are part of the plot or they have been abducted by the British state- "protective custody" effectively means the same thing.

*The substance used to poison a former Russian agent was a highly purified form of Novichok says the chemical watchdog OPCW.*

Accordingly therefore, the official UK position on this whole affair CANNOT BE TRUE. As the narrative continues to collapse, they are having to continually chase the lie and of course we all know, that never works.

[Camden]

Rose, it seems like a play to get people to believe your turn of events and where they should place the blame, anything but contemplating it could simply be a Russian attack it seems. It has gone from the Skripals being victims to prisoners to now maybe being compliant in the affair ...

( or maybe you are gearing us up, just in case the Skirpals may reveal a Russian hand in the affair. So then you can use the excuse of it being down, to them being compliant with the UK authorities, not to be believed)

How is the poisoning incompatible with the claims of Novichok even if the purity was high. The fact they are not dead could be down to a list of various factors from dosage, the application, method of contact, time exposed to the substance as well as local factors of the scene of exposure weather, the presence of water, temperature.How quickly substance was removed or fell from contact. What part of body the poison entered how much poison was absorbed or not.Physical size, the general state of health and age of victims.

Which is shown in the different rates they recovered and how the PC was not affected as much as the intended victim.

How she left the hospital, media interest is superficial media scrum or not. As for the police keeping it under wraps just because we don't know what is happening doesn't mean there isn't an ongoing investigation.