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ANDREW NEIL: This breathtaking Afghan scandal risks ripping asunder the contract of trust between voters and leaders without which democracy cannot survive
The British state put thousands of lives at risk. It covered up its blunder with an unprecedented legal gag on Parliament and Press, with threats of jail for anybody even thinking about breaking it.
It launched a massive clandestine resettlement scheme for thousands of the victims of its bungling to relocate to the UK. The tab – hundreds of millions of pounds and rising – was picked up by British taxpayers, even though they were kept entirely in the dark about the whole shambles.
