Is It True

[gulliver1]

According to a report on Iranian state TV . The U/K is to pay £400m for the release of Zaghari Ratcliffe.

[Peter Pedant]

shah's money not the IRC
revolutionary means that you declare everything that has gone before kaput and start again
oh but not the credits of the shah - that is different
so you specifically DON;T honour what the shah contracted

except when you do.

when the Crown took over the Republic of Transvaal - alot of people werent keen on that by the way. It declared a Crown Colony of the transvaal instead. They appointed themselves lawful successors to Kruger - and had to cough up for all the naughtiness Kruger got up to. Robert E lane arbitration 1906. The IRC being revolutionary specifically did NOT do this

If I say I was one of the ones who rang the Foreign Office ( deluge my dear deluge) and said they cd go iinto the Libyan embassy after Yvonne Fletcher was shot under the Doctrine of Hot Pursuit - you can well believe it. They didnt by the way. Now fudged under the issue of The Phone Calls ( and did they exist?)

[youngmafbog]

You have lost me there PP.

Any chance of a translation?

[gulliver1]

Sunk @20.58 "a Johnson Gaffe" and look what the penalty was for this woman , he just can't help it , .....every time he opens his mouth ....

[emmie]

pretty much like you gulliver, what a load of tosh. lets pay them, and get her home.

[Canary42]

Boris got her jailed by his stupid statement when he was Foreign Secretary (no wonder Theresa sacked him), so he should pay personally.

[emmie]

no he didn't get her jailed. The Iranians are asking for the money we owe them, 400m, its time we cleared that debt.

[emmie]

where does it state that she sacked him, i can find no info to that effect, she installed him as FS in 2016. if she didn't think he was the right man for the job why give it to him.

[eve1974]

I’d say I’m all for it... it ALOT (understatement) of money but if it were your wife / mother / daughter / sister....

(And after boris mistaken comment a few years ago that possibly resulted in her being re detained..... well!)

[Peter Pedant]

You have lost me there PP.
Any chance of a translation?

foo ! yeah Dere are dese people
and they want money and they dont live in Engelond !
They say - give us money or we tear the finger nails off a Brit
and Boris says no
and they tear the finger nails of a Brit
and Boris says no again - why bovva she has lost her finger nails
and they say here is another and her finger nails go
and Boris still says no

simples - just read it

[Peter Pedant]

//where does it state that she sacked him,//
foo can I have a translation?

yeah Boris stood up in the Commons and said "what she done wrong den she only......XYZed" but in an etonian accent
and XYZ was a crime in the jurisdiction she was being held (Iran)
oops!

oops means "what an old etonian cack up" by the way

[Peter Pedant]

thank god AB has found its own level on the of Zaghari-Ratcliffe vexed question.

[emmie]

she had done nothing wrong as far as i can see. This is a kangaroo court that jailed her, nothing more.

[emmie]

is there an Etonian accent PP.

[gulliver1]

No doubt about it Boris, not engaging Brain before operating mouth when he was F/S led to this poor women being jailed.There should be a Hostage exchange now Boris for Zaghari.

[emmie]

don't be stupid gulliver, no one would exchange a PM for anyone....

[gulliver1]

08.24 I would.

[emmie]

just one person gulliver, and quite frankly your obsession with Boris is quite tiresome

[gulliver1]

When will this lady be released,? no word from johnson yet .I hope this will go ahead and not just be political talk, after her building up hope.

[Sunk]

Emmie. From 2017...

// Johnson told a select committee last week that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was training journalists - rather than being on holiday with her 22-month-old daughter Gabriella - when she was arrested and jailed in Iran 18 months ago.
The remark led to the 37-year-old making an unscheduled court appearance on Saturday where Johnson’s comment was used as evidence against her on a fresh charge of  propaganda against the regime.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe is now facing being jailed for a further five years, her husband Richard Ratcliffe told HuffPost UK earlier this week when he urged Johnson to urgently correct his “error”. //

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-johnson-nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe_uk_5a03fedbe4b03deac08b29fa

[gulliver1]

09.14 Sunk , thanks for the clarification .