Afghan scandal is the latest evidence public are lied to and ignored by governments… It's time for an election NOW

The Sun

5 days ago

IT came out of a clear blue sky. When John Healey, the Secretary of State for Defence, got up in the House of Commons on Monday afternoon you could have heard a pin drop.
When he sat down the country's collective jaw had hit the floor.
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A Royal Marine had circulated an email in 2022 containing the personal details of 25,000 Afghans by mistake.
The email revealed which of them had helped British troops during the war — and would be an immediate gift to the Taliban if they got their hands on it.
They would surely hunt these collaborators down and kill them.
But, believe it or not, the story gets worse from there.
Because the last ­ Conservative government decided to cover it up and, using a draconian legal manoeuvre, attempted to keep it secret forever.
Thankfully, because of dogged determination from newspapers and other media outlets, the truth has come out.
And it's as shocking as it is shameful.
Thousands upon thousands of Afghan families have been coming into this country secretly on unmarked planes, flying into military and commercial airports.
At the moment, we don't know exactly how many of them there are, how many of them are going to stay here for life.
And we don't even know really how much it's all going to cost in the long run.
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What we do know is that it's likely to be in excess of 24,000 people and £7billion.
The Tory government went to extreme lengths to obtain a super-injunction in 2023 — usually reserved for millionaire footballers and celebrities to protect their private lives from scrutiny — so that we would never find out what they were doing.
Lies and subterfuge
Rishi Sunak, Michael Gove, Suella Braverman, Grant Shapps and Robert Jenrick all knew what was happening.
And none of them thought it was a good idea for the British public to be given a clue about it.
People were rightly angry on Talk on Tuesday and more frustrated with their politicians than ever.
Many said they believed this was the final straw after years of being ignored, ridiculed and abused over their views on immigration.
We were inundated with calls from all over the country.
Listeners and viewers told me they'd had enough of lies, of subterfuge, of misleading reports and of betrayal by this government and the last.
What they want now is an election. To clear the air once and for all and to take power back for the people of his country.
When he was Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak vowed to stop the boats and thereby put an end to illegal migration.
But it now turns out that not only did that not happen, he actively conspired to conceal from the public his own government's policy to import thousands of Afghans and their families secretly, offering them free housing and settled asylum status.
When Keir Starmer took over at No10 last July, he decided to continue keeping secret the enormous scandal while pretending he was getting to grips with immigration.
At Prime Minister's Questions yesterday he attempted to portray the horrific abuse of freedom of the Press as simply the failings of the previous government.
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But, in truth, Labour must also shoulder much of the blame for attempting to pull the wool over the eyes of every man, woman and child in Britain by preventing the publication of one of the biggest government blunders in our history.
For the past three years, I have been telling the story of our immigration overload, of groups of young men gathering in town centres up and down the country, seemingly jobless and in ever increasing numbers.
My knowledge of the problem was informed by ordinary people telling me what it was like where they lived every single day.
Yesterday was no different. One caller from Sussex told us how he'd bought a new build, four-bedroom house for half a million pounds only to discover that an Afghan family had been moved into another one for free on the estate, along with three others in smaller homes.
'We weren't told,' he said. 'It leaves a very sour taste.'
Another woman from Uxbridge said she was living in former Air Force housing when suddenly, in February last year, several Afghan families were moved into other homes in the same compound.
All the children were sent off to the local schools, and none of them spoke English.
People have told me for months that there seems to be more Afghan nationals around the place than usual.
They're ­worried. They know from recent government statistics that Afghan and Eritrean men are 20 times more likely to commit sex crimes than British men.
And they also see the unfairness of paying out £7billion for years and years to come, to provide free homes, schooling and support.
Let us face facts. What we've got is a government that's in power but not in charge.
It's a government that was elected last July somewhat on false pretences.
Because we were not told about the Afghan kill list, nor the fact it was leaked, nor that the establishment was conspiring to keep it all secret from the public.
It's clear that we have all been lied to, treated with contempt and ignored. The people have had enough.
Let the public decide. And let the public choose who they want to run this country.
It's time for an election NOW.