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The British, despite decades of self deception and self serving propaganda to the contrary, have never been widely trusted in the world.
The British will promise one thing to your face, whilst conspiring against you behind your back. A smile more often than not is designed to conceal a well hidden stiletto; the carefully constructed lie presented as fact. Theft committed as often with a fountain pen as a sword. This double dealing and back stabbing have long been the experience of dealing with the British for the inhabitants of foreign lands. From Sykes–Picot, to Munich, from Suez to Cyprus from Diego Garcia [1] to Kenya,[2] British treachery has been experienced the world over. The honourable British Gentleman a self serving fiction, the true experience of the British being encapsulated by Flashman not Tom Brown.


I thought of this when watching The Prime Minister trying to slip out of the moral obligation we owe those who supported us in Afghanistan from settling here following British withdrawal.[3] Leaving  them in Afghanistan will leave them to the mercy of the Taliban.


        ‘Many of the 500 or so interpreters employed by the Ministry of Defence     in Afghanistan say they have received serious threats to their lives, while some have already fled to the UK to claim asylum.’[4]


Those who avoid being murdered by Taliban hit squads, in reprisal for being ‘collaborators,’ will live a life as hunted and haunted individuals. The reason that Cameron does not want to admit them to the UK can only characterised as racist, pandering to the current UKIP generated hysteria about immigration. Mr Cameron’s solution is to stuff their pockets with silver and shove them out of sight, whilst all the time pretending that his real concern is with the future of Afghanistan.

'On Wednesday, Mr Cameron told the BBC that he had asked officials to draw up an offer to encourage the interpreters to stay at home and rebuild their country.'[5]


This disgusting little manoeuvre, if Cameron pulls it off, will shame us all. I would say to anyone abroad that the next time a British diplomat says “trust me,” feel for your watch and check your small change, get any agreement in writing and watch your back as you walk away; Etonians play dirty.




[1] Between 1968 and 1973, the Chagossians, then numbering about 2,000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to establish a military base on the island. Today, the exiled Chagossians are still trying to return, claiming that the forced expulsion and dispossession was illegal
[4] Ibid
[5] Ibid



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