Breach of trust
WE can understand why ministers dealing with a gut-wrenching military data breach would want time to evacuate Afghans at risk from the Taliban’s death squads.
But keeping details of an £850million airlift to smuggle thousands to Britain secret for nearly TWO YEARS without the public or Parliament’s knowledge is simply indefensible.
Despite the huge cost to taxpayers, a global superinjunction meant a media blackout on revealing the existence of Operation Rubific — launched after a leak on Facebook of a list of Afghans who had worked with British forces and applied for sanctuary.
Families were housed in MOD homes or hotels across the country while local MPs were kept in the dark.
The Government admitted that over-the-top secrecy may have made the database seem more valuable to the Taliban than it actually was.
Yet panic over the leaked “kill list” of names was such that even Afghan men previously rejected for sanctuary because of sex assaults were brought to Britain.
Following the breach, schemes to relocate 23,900 Afghans were ramped up, costing up to £7billion.
None were included in published immigration figures.
Tens of thousands of others denied asylum may launch legal appeals.
Law firms are now also licking their lips at the prospect of helping many to sue the Government for £50,000 each — potentially adding another £1billion to the bill.
From the chaotic withdrawal from Kabul in 2021, to failing to tell former Afghan special forces soldiers they were on this leaked list, Britain’s inept handling of those who risked their lives to help fight the Taliban has been shameful.
But that such a monumental and costly operation was conducted in complete secrecy by our politicians shows a breath-taking lack of trust in the British people, too.
PAKeeping details of an £850 million airlift to smuggle thousands to Britain secret for nearly TWO YEARS is simply indefensible[/caption]
Hell Dorado
FRENCH politicians say illegal migrants desperate to cross the Channel see the UK as a benefits El Dorado.
But for hard-working Brits paying record taxes to fund soaring welfare payments for legal migrants, it’s already Hell Dorado.
A staggering 1.3million foreigners are now claiming benefits, including 750,000 unemployed.
That means the Government is spending billions on low-skilled foreign “workers” who don’t even have jobs.
There is now very real anger boiling up among working voters sick of paying even more tax to featherbed foreign-born and homegrown idlers.
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