Hard to believe. Everything looked so neat and orderly
Most useless whistleblower ever.
This article is more comprehensive. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/07/whistleblower-condemns-foreign-office-over-kabul-evacuation I was appalled by “At one point at the height of the crisis, he says he was the only person working on the evacuation desk, and was having to make life and death decisions on individuals to be evacuated on the basis of entirely haphazard criteria.” Immagine finding yourself in a similar situation, I am shivering at the idea.
“Staff were scared by making hundreds of life and death decisions about which they knew nothing,” he says.
What I find hard to believe:
“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.”
“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.” I would never have think that Boris would be such a pro animal guy. Especially after the previously comments about pigs.
<For five nights in succession, he claims no night shift staff were deployed. DfID staff recruited to help “were visibly appalled by the system>
“Yet despite the urgency of the situation, the default expectation remained that staff in the FCDO would only work eight hours a day, five days a week.”
How people didn’t rebel, I don’t understand.
“He adds that despite repeated requests it was not possible to find how many names had already been called up for evacuation, meaning the department never knew how many slots were still available. In the end, soldiers at the airport selected individuals on the basis of the order of their names on a Home Office spreadsheet.”
Again immagine being saved by the order of excel.
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Hard to believe. Everything looked so neat and orderly
Most useless whistleblower ever.
This article is more comprehensive. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/07/whistleblower-condemns-foreign-office-over-kabul-evacuation I was appalled by “At one point at the height of the crisis, he says he was the only person working on the evacuation desk, and was having to make life and death decisions on individuals to be evacuated on the basis of entirely haphazard criteria.” Immagine finding yourself in a similar situation, I am shivering at the idea.
“Staff were scared by making hundreds of life and death decisions about which they knew nothing,” he says.
What I find hard to believe:
“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.”
“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.” I would never have think that Boris would be such a pro animal guy. Especially after the previously comments about pigs.
<For five nights in succession, he claims no night shift staff were deployed. DfID staff recruited to help “were visibly appalled by the system>
“Yet despite the urgency of the situation, the default expectation remained that staff in the FCDO would only work eight hours a day, five days a week.”
How people didn’t rebel, I don’t understand.
“He adds that despite repeated requests it was not possible to find how many names had already been called up for evacuation, meaning the department never knew how many slots were still available. In the end, soldiers at the airport selected individuals on the basis of the order of their names on a Home Office spreadsheet.”
Again immagine being saved by the order of excel.