During two years and more than 20 court hearings, ministers argued a super-injunction was necessary to give them the chance to relocate tens of thousands of Afghans to the UK after the ignominious withdrawal of allied troops from Kabul, with costs of up to £7billion cited regularly.
Yesterday the Ministry of Defence was saying the numbers were in the single-digit thousands and the costs £400 million to £800 million.
However in October 2024 Healey’s presentation to the home and economic affairs committee of Cabinet members: ‘This paper... argues for a reformed Afghan Resettlement Programme that could see c.36,000 settled. Assuming minsters are content to proceed as recommended, we would be aspiring to develop a programme which resettles c.36,000 people (of which c.3,500 are already in the relocation pipeline).’
Afghans whose identities were revealed in a military data leak had no automatic right to asylum, the Defence Secretary has said.
The personal details of some 18,000 Afghans who applied to be relocated to the UK were leaked but only a total of 6,900, including their relatives, have been accepted for refuge in Britain under a secret asylum scheme.
John Healey said most of the people on the list were not eligible for the scheme, even though their names had been leaked as they had not worked alongside or served with UK forces.
Serious doubts have been expressed by many commentators that any party to this is telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It would be charitable to say that some of the things that may be said are said out of a lack of knowledge of the whole situation. The case is that the story changes with such amazing regularity it seems nobody really know what is going on.
This is bad enough as it is without the usual supects jumping on the bandwagon to offer their crackpot theories.
It is so much worse than has been reported, ...serving Army families having to vacate long held married quarters and move up to an hour away from camp because the Army need to keep the refugee families near to army bases because the Afghan males in the extended families are so disruptive in the local communities...Afghan males wandering into local primary schools and threatening teachers for letting english boys and girls play football together...supposedly endangered men, fleeing Afghanistan in fear of their lives, returning to Kabul briefly on scheduled flights for family weddings...the Army not letting female soldiers have any dealings with the male refugees for fear of their being assaulted...it goes on.
What a mess we are in. We live in a totalitarian state and every word that falls out of a politicians mouth is a lie. The last paragraph is laughable. Why the need for the super injunction? I’m also looking over my shoulder for other underhand dealings this week that they are trying hide whilst this story takes front page. And to think the powers at be take this country to war on the fake narrative of protecting “democracy” in other countries.
Successive government's have treated us like mushrooms, keep us in the dark and feed us s**t, this leak has exposed parliament, totalitarian, undemocratic, never mind the free speech. 7 billion?, on what? All I know is that this once great country has betrayed the people with lies. Wouldn't be surprised if there is civil unrest coming, just remember, who is your neighbour.
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