Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Aroogah

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/28/tensions-rise-at-the-3bn-surrey-estate-russian-oligarchs-call-home

Russians and those from former Soviet states own more than a quarter of the 430 luxurious homes in St George’s Hill, a heavily guarded 964-acre estate near Weybridge, Surrey, where mansions have changed hands for more than £20m each.

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However, a few minutes’ walk away at a council estate that backs on the estate it was hard to stop Joy, a 75-year-old retired furniture saleswoman, from speaking her mind about “all those bloody dodgy Russians next door”.

£20m mansions owned by foreign kleptocrats backing onto council estates. Tory Britain epitomised.

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bootbonnet in reply to @Aroogah

The place where the Diggers founded a utopian anarchist commune back in the 1650s. There's a great bit on it in London Orbital, but I guess it has got even worse since then.
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NotThamesWater in reply to @Aroogah

St George's Hill has been like that since pre-Glasnost days though - although it appears to have reached the next evolution of golf club leif.

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