Bulgarian Russia Spies Sentenced

[Hymie]

In this BBC article much is made of the fact that three of them attended a Brexit debate in the houses of parliament in May of 2016.

 

I wonder if our security services are aware that at the behest of Boris Johnson, we have the son of a KGB agent in the House of Lords.

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c39xkevzrdvt

[youngmafbog]

Get help mate.

[Hymie]

I’m willing to bet a large amount of money that if I was the son of a KGB agent and applied for a job at say British Aerospace – I would not pass the required security clearance.

 

But being a mate of Boris Johnson - no problem with the son of a KGB agent having full access to the Houses of Parliament.

[newmodarmy]

//In this BBC article much is made of the fact that three of them attended a Brexit debate in the houses of parliament in May of 2016.//

Not true.

Their attendance at a Brexit meeting gets a short paragragh near the bottom of page 2. That's hardly 'made much'

It also says:

Orlin Roussev, Biser Dzhambazov and Katrin Ivanova were present at an event to debate Brexit in a committee room in May 2016.There is no suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of either the event's organisers or attendees. But, photographs posted on social media and unearthed by the BBC show the spies with representatives of European political parties.

Doesn't mention Boris Johnson at all.

[newmodarmy]

No mention "at  Boris Johnson's behest " here either in this linked article which says:

Two people who knew Orlin Roussev during the relevant period confirmed he was the man pictured at the Commons event. The BBC visually reviewed the photographs to confirm Dzhambazov's attendance. Ivanova, also visible in photographs, appears on a list of people who indicated they would attend.

The use of the room for the event was sponsored by former West Ham MP Lyn Brown, now Baroness Brown of Silvertown. She was nominated for a life peerage by the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Baroness Brown of Silvertown told the BBC she had "absolutely no memory" of the event and did not believe she had "met or spoken to the three individuals".

There is no suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of either the event's organisers or attendees.

[Hymie]

I’m talking about KGB lieutenant-colonel Alexander Lebedev’s son, Evgeny Lebedev – who is a Lord in the House of Lords (put there by one Boris Johnson).

[newmodarmy]

Ah, so you introduced something nothing to do with the Bulgarian spies case and shoehorned in an irrelvant Brexit reference. Do you accept you were wrong to say "much is made...." when it was only given a tiny mention.

[Hymie]

The BBC article is clearly concerned that the Russian spies were in the Houses of Parliament (had they been at some local Brexit meeting in a town hall somewhere, nothing would be made of it).

 

We have the son of a high ranking KGB agent with unfettered access to our parliament; which was Boris Johnson’s doing.