Afghans on their way to sue the UK government for allowing them to stay in the UK
Getting involved in Afghanistan was always a moronic move, especially for Britain. Al Qaeda, whoever they were or whatever was controlling them, was an attack on America, so it was really up to America to decide what to do. If they wanted to invade Afghanistan as a result, then that was something they should and could have handled all on their own. It had nothing to do with Britain, so it was stupid of Britain to be involved in any way.
Then, once Britain did make the mistake of getting involved, the best we could have done was to leave as soon as the Taliban had been toppled. Instead, we stayed on for another 20 years, pouring in more blood and treasure to back up our stupid American allies and our "special relationship" with them, which the Presidency of Donald Trump has revealed to be largely worthless.
Now, we suddenly get the news that the UK has some kind of "moral debt" to any Afghani who worked in any way with UK personnel during that time, and that this has committed the UK government to bringing them and their families into Britain, costing billions, all because a list of their names was stupidly leaked by someone who won't even be fired or lose their fat civil service pension.
Also, it appears that the present-day Taliban government in Kabul has zero interest in tracking these people down down. More's the pity because hundreds of these ungrateful scumbags are now signed up with lawyers to sue to the UK government for billions in "damages" for leaking their names!
Adding another layer to this now towering shit sandwich, we also learn that this major cock-up happened back in 2022 and that the Conservative government at the time used a court injunction to prevent any mention of this story in the media and kept the whole thing locked up for three years!
Now, we suddenly get the news that the UK has some kind of "moral debt" to any Afghani who worked in any way with UK personnel during that time, and that this has committed the UK government to bringing them and their families into Britain, costing billions, all because a list of their names was stupidly leaked by someone who won't even be fired or lose their fat civil service pension.
Also, it appears that the present-day Taliban government in Kabul has zero interest in tracking these people down down. More's the pity because hundreds of these ungrateful scumbags are now signed up with lawyers to sue to the UK government for billions in "damages" for leaking their names!
Adding another layer to this now towering shit sandwich, we also learn that this major cock-up happened back in 2022 and that the Conservative government at the time used a court injunction to prevent any mention of this story in the media and kept the whole thing locked up for three years!
Ben Wallace, the minister responsible for this fuck-up, and his shit-eating grin
But, hey, it's not just the Tories. Labour are fully signed up to this political dumpster fire, and have pledged to fulfil all the commitments made by their Tory predecessors. Yes, they are both on the same team, the one that believes in taking one dump after another on the British voting public, as literally no one outside the Westminster bubble wants any of this Afghan crap.
The problem is twofold.
Firstly, the British economy is stagnant, weighed down by debt, and grossly over taxed. The bill for babysitting these Afghans for the rest of their lives is estimated to cost the UK between £5 billion and £9 billion (as usual, greater credence should be given to the upper estimate in cases like this).
Secondly, just as the UK economy is saturated with debt and taxation, so its social fabric is falling apart under the various burdens of "diversity," which include everything from rape gangs, migrant hostels in your local neighbouring, bloated health and welfare costs, rising street crime, increased "hate speech" repression, the degradation of the fabric of everyday life, and "being tolerant" when no one's feeling tolerant.
Firstly, the British economy is stagnant, weighed down by debt, and grossly over taxed. The bill for babysitting these Afghans for the rest of their lives is estimated to cost the UK between £5 billion and £9 billion (as usual, greater credence should be given to the upper estimate in cases like this).
Secondly, just as the UK economy is saturated with debt and taxation, so its social fabric is falling apart under the various burdens of "diversity," which include everything from rape gangs, migrant hostels in your local neighbouring, bloated health and welfare costs, rising street crime, increased "hate speech" repression, the degradation of the fabric of everyday life, and "being tolerant" when no one's feeling tolerant.
Needless to say, the financial and tolerance burdens are creating almost toxic levels of dissatisfaction with the political system and especially with the establishment parties. Effectively the UK is getting "depoliticized" but not in a good way. What is happening is that the two main parties are being increasingly hollowed out, while ordinary voters, rendered homeless, are swilling around between apathy and extremism, like an increasingly agitated and easily stampeded herd of sheep.
Say what you like about the old two-party system, but at least it made things relatively predictable and stable. Now the most popular party in this post-political desert is Reform UK, who don't have any real policies and don't actually need them. In that sense they are relatively milquetoast and meaningless. But what makes them extreme is their ability to get the incontinent masses worked up, while being funded and supported by dark money with possible links to the Kremlin.
The Conservative Party already looked dead before this Afghan mess, thanks to Boris Wave. This scandal will just drive the coffin nails in deeper. Any one who was in the Conservative government from 2022 onwards, when this shitshow broke and was immediately covered up, is now politically dead. Interestingly, this also includes Reform UK's Lee Anderson who was Tory deputy chairman at the time.
Labour will be slightly less harmed by this, because they at least have a core of supporters who think that mass immigration is a divine blessing, but there are also elements within the party who deeply resent the Afghan War and the party's ongoing subservience to Britain's so-called allies and alliances. This group is particularly -- and quite rightly -- inflamed by the the actions of Israel in Gaza, Trump's support for this, and the fake accusations of anti-Semitism that were used by Zionist agents to oust Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour leadership.
The present Keir Starmer Labour Party, founded on the notions of being "fiscally sensible" in order to better help working class Brits, while also being a reliable "patriotic" Western ally, which seemed a no-brainer under Biden and before Netanyahu started doing genocide, looks increasingly fragile.
The combined acquiescence of both Labour and Tories in this Afghan debacle, along with the total disregard in all this for the obvious preferences of voters, looks more and more like a suicide-pact between these two parties, rather than anything resembling intelligent or principled politics.
This brings us to what the British voting public basically wants.
They want a healthy economy that provides rising living standards, with not too much tax and not too much welfare, (because they know it gets abused by the wrong sort).
They want relative demographic stability and a sense of "Britishness," not the ever-increasing churn of mass immigration and racial replacement (migrant boats, people smuggling by gangs and governments, and streets that feel increasingly unsafe and alien).
Labour will be slightly less harmed by this, because they at least have a core of supporters who think that mass immigration is a divine blessing, but there are also elements within the party who deeply resent the Afghan War and the party's ongoing subservience to Britain's so-called allies and alliances. This group is particularly -- and quite rightly -- inflamed by the the actions of Israel in Gaza, Trump's support for this, and the fake accusations of anti-Semitism that were used by Zionist agents to oust Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour leadership.
The present Keir Starmer Labour Party, founded on the notions of being "fiscally sensible" in order to better help working class Brits, while also being a reliable "patriotic" Western ally, which seemed a no-brainer under Biden and before Netanyahu started doing genocide, looks increasingly fragile.
Moral obligation to Afghans, not to British voters
The combined acquiescence of both Labour and Tories in this Afghan debacle, along with the total disregard in all this for the obvious preferences of voters, looks more and more like a suicide-pact between these two parties, rather than anything resembling intelligent or principled politics.
This brings us to what the British voting public basically wants.
They want a healthy economy that provides rising living standards, with not too much tax and not too much welfare, (because they know it gets abused by the wrong sort).
They want relative demographic stability and a sense of "Britishness," not the ever-increasing churn of mass immigration and racial replacement (migrant boats, people smuggling by gangs and governments, and streets that feel increasingly unsafe and alien).
They also don't want to be tied into alliances and global structures that don't seem to serve a direct useful purpose. In other words, "NATO - good; adventures in the Middle East and supporting Israeli genocide - not good."
It's not complicated and it's not even that difficult to do, but it appears that the two traditional parties of government have become "structurally" unable to respond to these broad desires and preferences. The Afghan fiasco is the clearest example of all this.
The great de-politicisation riots of 2024
Any government with a bit of cunning or intelligence would soon find a way to whittle down the numbers of Afghans covered by the scheme to a few dozen, while also slam dunking the migrant boats problem by simply locking up all those making illegal crossings in "processing camps" in, say, the Outer Hebrides.
In fact, issues like these would be the easiest way to quickly and cheaply score political points with the voters, and to stop them becoming an increasingly unpredictable, depoliticised rabble. The two main parties are signally failing to make this choice. Instead they have chosen a future of uncertainty and instability.
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.
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