Don’t let Navalny’s death be in vain
ALEXEI Navalny’s death must unite the West like never before against Vladimir Putin’s murderous tyranny.
The scenes now playing out inside his brutal regime are predictably grotesque.
The body of Mad Vlad’s most heroic critic is missing from the morgue at his Siberian gulag.
Almost anyone who has even just lit a candle in his memory has been dragged off by the masked security services.
The mysterious death of Russia’s opposition leader warranted just 28 seconds on official Moscow TV.
In a country of such blind hatred even laying a flower has become an act of bravery.
While the West dithers, Putin has been allowed to get away with dodging sanctions imposed over Ukraine.
His massive military spending and backdoor deals with other rogue states meant the Russian economy actually grew last year.
And in the run-up to the rigged Russian presidential elections next month, he has been given a platform to parade his deluded views in a soft-soap American interview with useful idiot Tucker Carlson.
Foreign Secretary David Cameron is absolutely right to warn that Putin must face “consequences” over Navalny’s death.
Western leaders at the timely Munich Security Conference must agree a tough and concerted response.
And President Joe Biden must ensure every cent of the $60billion pledged by the US gets to Ukraine.
Navalny had unbelievable courage. But he fell victim to Putin’s crazed brutality.
The West cannot afford to make the same mistake.
Migrant Nimbys
LEFTIES in Scotland and Wales love to make a great show of piously lecturing Westminster on migrants — only to shamefully fail to deliver themselves.
The SNP government has repeatedly promised to embrace its fair share of the asylum-seekers who arrive on our shores.
But in reality it has housed just eight for every 10,000 of its people, around half of agreed targets.
And shockingly that figure even went down last year.
Labour-run Wales is hardly any better, with nine per 10,000 of its population.
In contrast England has absorbed about twice that — 16 for every 10,000.
It is one thing for Home Secretary James Cleverly to rap them on the knuckles but these Westminster-funded regimes should also be hit with stinging financial penalties.
That might help them live up to their own lofty rhetoric.
