>In the final days of the evacuation effort, with extremely limited capacity for removals, Raab was asked to personally approve exceptional cases. But Marshall claimed Raab took “hours to engage” – and then returned the files, asking for them to be submitted in a different spreadsheet format.
>
>“There was very little time left for anyone to enter the airport, therefore the foreign secretary’s choice to cause a delay suggests he did not understand the desperate situation at Kabul airport,” Marshall told MPs on the committee.
>
>Yet, according to Marshall, Raab still declined to defer the judgment to officials. “In the circumstances, it is hard to explain why he reserved the decision for himself but failed to make it immediately.”
>
>Marshall said he believed the delay meant some never made it to the airport.
>
>The prime minister’s own conduct has also been called into question.
>
>Few visas were granted after 25 August, apart from those for the staff of animal rights charity Nowzad, which had become a cause célèbre, on the direct intervention of Boris Johnson.
Vacuous fucks.
>Despite his protestations, Raab has arguably paid some price for his leadership during those weeks after Kabul fell, being demoted from foreign secretary to justice secretary
there is this as well, Buckland not playing ball with Johnson on Judicial Review:
>Joanna Cherry QC, a senior lawyer and SNP MP, tweeted: “So now we know why Robert Buckland got the push for Dominic Raab. Clearly [Buckland’s] approach to judicial review and human rights ‘reform’ was too vanilla. These proposals are an affront to democracy and the rule of law.”
>
>([No 10 ‘plans to let ministers strike out legal rulings they disagree with’](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/06/no-10-plans-to-let-ministers-strike-out-legal-rulings-they-disagree-with))
Raab has little experience with the law (like Braverman) and therefore doesn’t respect it and so is willing to tear down its structures on a whim.
The whistleblower also reveals the uproar inside the Ministry of Defence when Boris Johnson ordered an [Afghan animal charity to be given priority for evacuation.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/28/ex-marine-pen-farthing-and-pets-cleared-for-afghanistan-evacuation)
>
>In his testimony, Marshall claims: “There was a direct trade-off between transporting Nowzad’s animals and evacuating British nationals and Afghan evacuees, including Afghans who had served with British soldiers.”
>
>The civil servant worked for a team responsible for helping people whose lives were at risk due to their connection with the UK.
>
>The applicants did not qualify for the Arap (Afghan relocations and assistance policy) scheme – which was meant for those who had been directly employed by the UK government.
>
>But they included Afghan soldiers, politicians, journalists, civil servants, feminists, aid workers and judges.
>
>In his testimony, Marshall estimates **between 75,000 and 150,000** people (including dependants) applied for evacuation under the special case scheme.
>
>The vast majority of these applicants feared their lives were at risk as a result of their connection to the UK and the west and were therefore eligible for evacuation.
>
>In a 39-page statement to MPs on the foreign affairs select committee, Marshall estimates **fewer than 5% received help**.
>
>([Whistleblower condemns Foreign Office over Kabul evacuation](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/07/whistleblower-condemns-foreign-office-over-kabul-evacuation))
>
>(emphasis added)
But Carrie wanted every single one of those street dogs to get out of Kabul safely.
At the time Johnsons government were telling us they were doing everything possible to get people out, but it is now revealed that Rabb, when he eventually dragged himself away from his 5 star resort, was neither use nor ornament, emergency response meant FO workers working 9-5 and certainly not at weekends and Johnson and Symonds were more concerned about a pack of dogs than desperate people!
You couldn’t make it up.
I thought Raab didn’t have a role in the Afghan rescue debacle because he was too busy sunning himself and playing in the sea.
I suspect a lot of the fresh questions came from him. Such as ‘was I Foreign Secretary?’ and ‘what does that mean?’
The worst possible set of people at the worst possible time.
Well yeah thats because the tory party *hates* foreigners. Has nobody seen any of their foreign policy this last decade? How they treat immigrants? I just hate you lot who voted for this evil group of cunts.
Why are there still questions? He was in charge of it. He oversaw it. He lead it. I’m not sure how much clearer it can be made?
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>In the final days of the evacuation effort, with extremely limited capacity for removals, Raab was asked to personally approve exceptional cases. But Marshall claimed Raab took “hours to engage” – and then returned the files, asking for them to be submitted in a different spreadsheet format.
>
>“There was very little time left for anyone to enter the airport, therefore the foreign secretary’s choice to cause a delay suggests he did not understand the desperate situation at Kabul airport,” Marshall told MPs on the committee.
>
>Yet, according to Marshall, Raab still declined to defer the judgment to officials. “In the circumstances, it is hard to explain why he reserved the decision for himself but failed to make it immediately.”
>
>Marshall said he believed the delay meant some never made it to the airport.
>
>The prime minister’s own conduct has also been called into question.
>
>Few visas were granted after 25 August, apart from those for the staff of animal rights charity Nowzad, which had become a cause célèbre, on the direct intervention of Boris Johnson.
Vacuous fucks.
>Despite his protestations, Raab has arguably paid some price for his leadership during those weeks after Kabul fell, being demoted from foreign secretary to justice secretary
there is this as well, Buckland not playing ball with Johnson on Judicial Review:
>Joanna Cherry QC, a senior lawyer and SNP MP, tweeted: “So now we know why Robert Buckland got the push for Dominic Raab. Clearly [Buckland’s] approach to judicial review and human rights ‘reform’ was too vanilla. These proposals are an affront to democracy and the rule of law.”
>
>([No 10 ‘plans to let ministers strike out legal rulings they disagree with’](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/06/no-10-plans-to-let-ministers-strike-out-legal-rulings-they-disagree-with))
Raab has little experience with the law (like Braverman) and therefore doesn’t respect it and so is willing to tear down its structures on a whim.
The whistleblower also reveals the uproar inside the Ministry of Defence when Boris Johnson ordered an [Afghan animal charity to be given priority for evacuation.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/28/ex-marine-pen-farthing-and-pets-cleared-for-afghanistan-evacuation)
>
>In his testimony, Marshall claims: “There was a direct trade-off between transporting Nowzad’s animals and evacuating British nationals and Afghan evacuees, including Afghans who had served with British soldiers.”
>
>The civil servant worked for a team responsible for helping people whose lives were at risk due to their connection with the UK.
>
>The applicants did not qualify for the Arap (Afghan relocations and assistance policy) scheme – which was meant for those who had been directly employed by the UK government.
>
>But they included Afghan soldiers, politicians, journalists, civil servants, feminists, aid workers and judges.
>
>In his testimony, Marshall estimates **between 75,000 and 150,000** people (including dependants) applied for evacuation under the special case scheme.
>
>The vast majority of these applicants feared their lives were at risk as a result of their connection to the UK and the west and were therefore eligible for evacuation.
>
>In a 39-page statement to MPs on the foreign affairs select committee, Marshall estimates **fewer than 5% received help**.
>
>([Whistleblower condemns Foreign Office over Kabul evacuation](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/07/whistleblower-condemns-foreign-office-over-kabul-evacuation))
>
>(emphasis added)
But Carrie wanted every single one of those street dogs to get out of Kabul safely.
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Do read this [article](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/07/whistleblower-condemns-foreign-office-over-kabul-evacuation) in full.
At the time Johnsons government were telling us they were doing everything possible to get people out, but it is now revealed that Rabb, when he eventually dragged himself away from his 5 star resort, was neither use nor ornament, emergency response meant FO workers working 9-5 and certainly not at weekends and Johnson and Symonds were more concerned about a pack of dogs than desperate people!
You couldn’t make it up.
I thought Raab didn’t have a role in the Afghan rescue debacle because he was too busy sunning himself and playing in the sea.
I suspect a lot of the fresh questions came from him. Such as ‘was I Foreign Secretary?’ and ‘what does that mean?’
The worst possible set of people at the worst possible time.
Well yeah thats because the tory party *hates* foreigners. Has nobody seen any of their foreign policy this last decade? How they treat immigrants? I just hate you lot who voted for this evil group of cunts.
Why are there still questions? He was in charge of it. He oversaw it. He lead it. I’m not sure how much clearer it can be made?