The news \u2014 if we can still call it that when it’s hidden under a super injunction \u2014 that the UK government secretly brought 24,000 Afghans<\/strong> into the country has done more than raise eyebrows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s triggered a deeper, darker question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If they can do this in secret\u2026 what else have they done?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The justification offered was that these people were at risk because their names were leaked on a Taliban-accessible list. But there\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even by generous estimates, the number of Afghan nationals who actually<\/em> worked with or for the UK was somewhere around 1,200<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So why 24,000<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Were their lives at risk? Possibly. So what are we looking at here? Let\u2019s be clear: if someone genuinely faced danger because they worked with UK personnel, they absolutely deserved safety<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But this doesn\u2019t look like that. And that, more than the numbers, is what should trouble us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Personally, I lost trust in many public institutions years ago. But this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This seals it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because it\u2019s not about which party did what. If this is what they\u2019re prepared to do in secret, behind legal gagging orders, what else have they done?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n And more importantly \u2014 what else are they planning to do, without telling us?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m not angry at Afghan refugees. \u201cHope isn’t what they promise you. It’s how you carry on when they don\u2019t deliver.\u201d Dave Carrera<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On secrecy, trust, and the silence between the headlines By Dave Carrera. The news \u2014 if we can still call it that when it’s hidden under a super injunction \u2014 that the UK government secretly brought 24,000 Afghans into the country has done more than raise eyebrows. It\u2019s triggered a deeper, darker question: If they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[215,214,216,217],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-afghan","tag-secrecy","tag-super-injunction","tag-uk-government"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
Numbers That Don\u2019t Add Up<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The reason? They had worked for UK forces before the fall of Kabul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the numbers don’t match the claim.
And more worryingly, reports now suggest that the Taliban did nothing<\/strong> with the leaked list \u2014 not for months, maybe years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A mission to save lives?
Or a quiet operation to cover reputational tracks?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Silence Is the Real Scandal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
This looks like something done without the knowledge or consent of the British public<\/strong> \u2014 the very people who fund the government, the legal system, and the super injunctions that kept this quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\nI Lost Trust a Long Time Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
That was a slow process. Quiet erosion over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s about the unaccountable machinery<\/strong> that now runs behind every curtain \u2014 while we\u2019re handed slogans and silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFinal Thought<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m angry at the people who used them<\/strong>, and used us<\/strong>, to move pieces on a board we were never meant to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n