One rule for the rich...

Want to work, pay tax, send a bit of money back home to your family, and build a better life for your loved ones?. No chance mate...

Want to buy a Football Club and launder (sorry, invest) your ill gotten gains from dodgy 'privatisations' - come right in!

Good Tristram Hunt (how many real-life Tristram's have you ever met by the way - I've met one and he was a right 'Tristram' - you know what I mean..) comment piece , which quite rightly asks 'Why do we welcome these robber barons to Britain?'. To which the answer is of course, we (that's a collective, not royal, we) love their money - and we don't really care how they earn it.

Of course the real losers in all this are the hundreds of millions of ordinary people the oligarchs leave behind - stuck in a crippled economy bled dry by the new Russian super-rich. As Hunt puts it, 'the riches that the south-east's service economy is siphoning off represent a grotesque theft of assets from the Russian people'. Bet Berezovsky et al didn't put that on their residence applications...