It argued that lives would be at risk if the media or Parliament revealed the existence of the leak, or the asylum scheme that followed, because the Taliban would be alerted to the existence of the list and would target those who had helped the US-led coalition before its withdrawal in 2021.
Instead of being in place for four months
Up to that point I support it.
as originally requested while the MoD organised an airlift of those affected – the Sunak government, and then the Labour Government that replaced it last year, kept the injunction in place for nearly two years.
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In October, a Cabinet sub-committee chaired by Pat McFadden, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster – and attended by Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, Mr Healey, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, and Shabana Mahmood, the Lord Chancellor – decided provisionally to expand the asylum scheme.By then, the projected costs had increased to £6 billion, and at another hearing last November, when Mr Justice Chamberlain was told how much public spending was being concealed, he spluttered: “I am starting to doubt myself – am I going bonkers, because it really is £6 billion?
And there we have the return of the usual lying scumbag behaviour. Both lots, obviously.
Sure, you don’t announce you’re flying planes into Entebbe. But demanding no one ever reveal that you have done so? Fuck off.
If you need a superinjunction in the first place to hide the fact that you’re flying planes into Entebbe, you’re doing it wrong.
If you support a superinjunction to hide the fact that you *were* flying planes into Entebbe, what’s the difference between four months and four years?
Between school and college in the mid 1980s I worked at the MoD.
I was horrified by how thick the people working there were. It ran all the way to the top, to our WingCo, who was a headmasterly type and eventually of course to that arch pillock Heseltine.
I was utterly relieved to get an offer, I really couldn’t face the prospect of spending the rest of my career there.
I suspect that the people I worked with then were intellectual titans compared to today’s mob.
As with so many such interventions it should have been tightly time limited from the outset. Someone messed up , we need to keep a lid on it until we fixed it and there should be a deadline on that.
All fair enough when lives are at stake and screw ups happen. After that full transparency and accountability.
Compliance training in most government entities is pretty crap. I get annual refreshers on every damn thing in the private sector, in government it was onboarding then forget.
The bigger scandal is why the MoD didn’t have a history book about previous Afghan adventures.
How on earth did they manage to hide £6 billion in the accounts? “Had to buy a lot of paper clips last year, sir. It’s the war, you know.”
Whole of government accounts are not, in fact, whole of government accounts…..
It would be fascinating to know the ethnicity of the anonymous MOD official involved in the initial mistake, if mistake it was.
Tens on that’s one snippet of information that’s never going to be released.
How on earth did they manage to hide £6 billion in the accounts?
1. Include it in overseas aid
2. Claim it as part of our defence commitment.
3. Amortise it over 99 years A.K.A. the Chagos concealment.
There are so many possibilities when career civil servants are running the country and it’s spending.
And anyway, how many translators were there? Did each squaddy have five or six?
Does this tie in with the graph posted a couple of days ago?
While the cover-up was ostensibly to protect thousands of Afghans who had helped the British government,
Helped them do what? Come here to rape our children?
Rishi Sunak’s government decided the public must not find out about a secret plan to offer nearly 24,000 Afghans asylum.
They were already less popular than the Lib Dems before this news, but now they’re as popular as a shit-stained condom.
That should be their new logo.
flying planes into Entebbe
The Jews heroically flew into Entebbe to rescue Jews. They didn’t need secrecy after the fact because they had done nothing wrong.
The British government knows it’s illegitimate, which is why they hate and fear their own people so much. Which is why tiny dancer Rishi did a gleeful little dance the day he successfully handed the baton over to Labour. They don’t work for you, they want you broke and dead, your children raped and brainwashed, and they think it’s funny.
Why here? Plenty of alternatives: Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Rwanda, Chagos…
Philip – Pakistan recently deported millions of Afghans because they were tired of their terrorism.
Pakistan is a real country, run by people who want a future for Pakistanis.
It would be fascinating to know the ethnicity of the anonymous MOD official involved in the initial mistake, if mistake it was.
Odds on the civil ‘servant’ was a member of the service’s Muslim Network?
We pay these muslim savages as civil servants to work against us. The civil service Muslim Network lobbies managers and ministers to support Palestine, proscribe ‘islamophobia’….etc
Theo, I think you’d really, really want that superinjunction if you were trying to hide a muslim traitor.
I don’t think the principle of rescuing those who helped us and thereby are now in danger is one that many people could senssibly object to, but the costs seem extortionate. This seems to have started almost exatly two years ago, so if we gave each of the 24,000 people affected the UK mediam wage (£37,430 accordiong to the latest ONS figures) for the two years, which should be plenty to hous, feed, and entertain them (quite apart from the fact that a worker earning that amount would pay tax on it), then we have spent £216,806 on each of them getting them here. Looking at the photo in the referenced article, that’s not because we provided each with a super luxurious whole 747 with chef, masseuse, and staff. Why does it cost so much?
@rhoda klapp – “how many translators were there?”
They weren’t all translators. That’s really just a way to conceal what they did. Some will have been informants, some may have traded with soldiers, some may have done no more than clean toilets on a base – all that matters is that they have a reasonable fear of retribution.
It would be fascinating to know the ethnicity of the anonymous MOD official involved in the initial mistake, if mistake it was.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rvyqd7wq2o
MoD offered to speed up resettlement case of Afghan who posted data breach names on Facebook
Well that didn’t take long. To say the plot thickens would be a bit of an understatement.
The BBC understands the man is now in the UK, having had his rejected application overturned. He is not believed to be facing any criminal charges in relation to his conduct.
Government sources close to the process told the BBC the individual had essentially blackmailed his way into the country using the leaked dataset.
Jesus wept.