Which makes you suspect him even more of being in the pay of Putin.

I've lost count of the stupid right-wingers, even here in the UK who told me that they admired Putin during the Brexit debates. Again, points more to where that brainwashing came from. Especially when the ruling UK party has received over £2million in Russian cash for their MP's.

In some ways Putin did us all a favour by jumping the gun in Ukraine or we may have become unwittingly under his influence even more than Boris Johnson's cozying up to one of Putin's allies, the KGB man Lebedev, and making that operative's son a Lord.