A Significant Additional Step?

Any chance of sanctions against the House of Saud, which inspires, funds and directs terrorist attacks on our very soil? Alexander Lukashenko is bad, but he has never done that. And while he did not win the 80 per cent of the vote that he claims, he will have won 60 per cent. Sad, perhaps. But undeniably true.

In the background to this chest-beating, Radek Sikorski of the Bullingdon Club told last Tuesday's Channel 4 News that Sergei Skripal had been murdered. That was not the first time that the War Party had announced the death of one or both of the Skripals. It is their latest WMD hoax.

With a seven-member "Presidium" (an old Soviet word), what is variously called the "Transitional Council" and the "Coordination Council" is nothing more than a body of 600 people nominally appointed by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the lightweight failed candidate to become a NATO and EU puppet President of Belarus.

The composition of the "Presidium" indicates where real power would lie if this "Council" were able to give effect to its obvious affectation to be the real sovereign body. As for its horizontal triband of white, red and white, that was the flag of the collaborators with the Nazis, and very enthusiastic collaborators they were, too.

I have lost far more elections than Tsikhanouskaya will ever contest. Therefore, I am thinking of naming a Transitional Coordination Council of around 600 people, perhaps one from each of the 650 parliamentary constituencies, with a seven-member Presidium.

I would then appeal for those to be recognised as this country's legitimate Legislature and Executive respectively. If nothing else, then such recognition might be forthcoming from President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. Why ever not?