The Russians have done us all a favour in my view. Anybody with two grey cells between their ears could never have regarded them as an entirely safe source of gas supply. That said, they have at least given everybody decent notice of how the world is going to be with them in charge and the Russians do need the cash to open up the country and make them softies like the rest of us. We still have 200 years supply of coal under the ground............when are we going to use it? As for VPC..........the blue touch paper has now been ignited!