On secrecy, trust, and the silence between the headlines By Dave Carrera.
The news — if we can still call it that when it’s hidden under a super injunction — that the UK government secretly brought 24,000 Afghans into the country has done more than raise eyebrows.
It’s triggered a deeper, darker question:
If they can do this in secret… what else have they done?
Numbers That Don’t Add Up
The justification offered was that these people were at risk because their names were leaked on a Taliban-accessible list.
The reason? They had worked for UK forces before the fall of Kabul.
But there’s a problem.
Even by generous estimates, the number of Afghan nationals who actually worked with or for the UK was somewhere around 1,200.
So why 24,000?
Were their lives at risk? Possibly.
But the numbers don’t match the claim.
And more worryingly, reports now suggest that the Taliban did nothing with the leaked list — not for months, maybe years.
So what are we looking at here?
A mission to save lives?
Or a quiet operation to cover reputational tracks?
The Silence Is the Real Scandal
Let’s be clear: if someone genuinely faced danger because they worked with UK personnel, they absolutely deserved safety.
But this doesn’t look like that.
This looks like something done without the knowledge or consent of the British public — the very people who fund the government, the legal system, and the super injunctions that kept this quiet.
And that, more than the numbers, is what should trouble us.
I Lost Trust a Long Time Ago
Personally, I lost trust in many public institutions years ago.
That was a slow process. Quiet erosion over time.
But this?
This seals it.
Because it’s not about which party did what.
It’s about the unaccountable machinery that now runs behind every curtain — while we’re handed slogans and silence.
If this is what they’re prepared to do in secret, behind legal gagging orders, what else have they done?
And more importantly — what else are they planning to do, without telling us?
Final Thought
I’m not angry at Afghan refugees.
I’m angry at the people who used them, and used us, to move pieces on a board we were never meant to see.
“Hope isn’t what they promise you. It’s how you carry on when they don’t deliver.” Dave Carrera
