>Evidence is building that the Government prioritised Pen Farthing’s animals over humans in Afghanistan
Evidence is building that Johnson, at the behest of his wife Carrie, prioritised animals over humans in Afghanistan.
FTFY.
At this point, Boris really should leave. Look, I don’t like Tories, but if people prefer this sort of tax/foreign/… policy overall, what can I do, I believe in democracy so it’s only right we listen to the vote of majority. But Boris in particular was caught in so many very substantial lies recently (well, tbh not just recently, but especially so). There should be some point when he gives up. Perhaps Rishi or whoever takes over will be no better eventually, but at least we’ll see there’s only so much a politician can afford to do before resigning.
Is that evidence that they filled up a perfectly good plane with these feral beasts? Seems a pretty closed case to me. What’s happened to these animals now?
Surely the media has to take some blame for giving so much air time to him as well?
This was everywhere and even had more media coverage than the rest of the evacuation. If the animals were left to be killed the media would have had a field day.
At the end of the day though, this was a by product of the mega omnishambles that was the evacuation and preceding events
Drop in this from last night:
>Allies of animal charity boss Pen Farthing and a Labour MP have cast doubt on Downing Street claims about a letter by Boris Johnson’s parliamentary aide Trudy Harrison giving him permission to be evacuated from Kabul in August.
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>No 10 said Harrison was “acting in her capacity as a constituency MP” when she wrote the letter – as it continued to insist that Boris Johnson had not ordered the rescue of Farthing and his cats and dogs ahead of desperate Afghans.
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>But Dominic Dyer, an animal rights campaigner lobbying to help Farthing, said on Wednesday that neither he nor Farthing were constituents of Harrison but that she had become involved in their campaign after some of her constituents had raised it.
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“From my perspective, Trudy was in contact with the PM. I understood the PM was committed to the operation and seeing it happened,” said Dyer, who had been intensively lobbying government over Farthing in late August.
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>“Pen needed something he could hold up at Kabul airport. To be fair to Trudy, she did a good job, and said, ‘I’ll see what I can do.’ I don’t know if she took it to Johnson, [but I can’t believe he wasn’t aware it was written](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/afghanistan-boris-johnson-airlift-animals-dominic-dyer). I can’t believe he wasn’t aware we’ve tied up the loose ends.”
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>Harrison’s letter, [which emerged on Tuesday night](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/letter-suggests-cover-up-of-pms-involvement-in-afghan-dog-airlift-says-mp), was dated 25 August and signed by her in her capacity as MP for Copeland in Cumbria and as “parliamentary private secretary to the prime minister”.
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>([Guardian: Doubts cast on No 10 claims about letter clearing dog airlift out of Kabul](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/08/doubts-cast-on-no-10-claims-about-letter-clearing-dog-airlift-out-of-kabul))
Fucking knew it, this dognut behaviour was called out at the time.
I don’t even get this. This is a country where dogs are bad ju-ju, I would be kicking people into the way of Taliban trucks just to buy precious time to load more dogs onto the planes. Fuck this ‘humans are more important’ bullshit. No dog ever fucked with my life.
We had a year, and as many planes as we wanted to evacuate as many people as we wanted. We left it to the last minute *on purpose*, so we could abandon more people. The fact that we didn’t act like complete cunts 100% of the time is beside the point.
Fucking hell, forgot about the dog story in the pile of stories which all make Boris look like a shit
I was downvoted to he for saying this. People would constantly say how these workers by their choice are staying in Afghanistan and letting the animals be rescued. Fuck this guy and anyone that even defended him.
Even at the time, the evidence was pretty damning. It was reported that the animals were being prioritised over the shelter’s employees and how Farthing turned down the first rescue option so he could get the animals out of there. All it took was a nudge from Carrie for it to all go ahead.
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What pisses me off, is that Farthing said he wanted to get the animals and his staff out of there, and refuses to leave without the staff, BUT TOOK OFF without the staff
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even had seats being empty, I don’t care if you love animals and place them above human lives, but if A human life was worth a single cat, that cat is already dead to save a human, and I say that as someone who once had a pet cat, humans lives come before animals.
Farthing had no choice but to leave the evacuation til the last minute because animals were being evacuated. The government had almost a year to evacuate people.
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>Evidence is building that the Government prioritised Pen Farthing’s animals over humans in Afghanistan
Evidence is building that Johnson, at the behest of his wife Carrie, prioritised animals over humans in Afghanistan.
FTFY.
At this point, Boris really should leave. Look, I don’t like Tories, but if people prefer this sort of tax/foreign/… policy overall, what can I do, I believe in democracy so it’s only right we listen to the vote of majority. But Boris in particular was caught in so many very substantial lies recently (well, tbh not just recently, but especially so). There should be some point when he gives up. Perhaps Rishi or whoever takes over will be no better eventually, but at least we’ll see there’s only so much a politician can afford to do before resigning.
Is that evidence that they filled up a perfectly good plane with these feral beasts? Seems a pretty closed case to me. What’s happened to these animals now?
Surely the media has to take some blame for giving so much air time to him as well?
This was everywhere and even had more media coverage than the rest of the evacuation. If the animals were left to be killed the media would have had a field day.
At the end of the day though, this was a by product of the mega omnishambles that was the evacuation and preceding events
Drop in this from last night:
>Allies of animal charity boss Pen Farthing and a Labour MP have cast doubt on Downing Street claims about a letter by Boris Johnson’s parliamentary aide Trudy Harrison giving him permission to be evacuated from Kabul in August.
>
>No 10 said Harrison was “acting in her capacity as a constituency MP” when she wrote the letter – as it continued to insist that Boris Johnson had not ordered the rescue of Farthing and his cats and dogs ahead of desperate Afghans.
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>But Dominic Dyer, an animal rights campaigner lobbying to help Farthing, said on Wednesday that neither he nor Farthing were constituents of Harrison but that she had become involved in their campaign after some of her constituents had raised it.
>
“From my perspective, Trudy was in contact with the PM. I understood the PM was committed to the operation and seeing it happened,” said Dyer, who had been intensively lobbying government over Farthing in late August.
>
>“Pen needed something he could hold up at Kabul airport. To be fair to Trudy, she did a good job, and said, ‘I’ll see what I can do.’ I don’t know if she took it to Johnson, [but I can’t believe he wasn’t aware it was written](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/afghanistan-boris-johnson-airlift-animals-dominic-dyer). I can’t believe he wasn’t aware we’ve tied up the loose ends.”
>
>Harrison’s letter, [which emerged on Tuesday night](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/letter-suggests-cover-up-of-pms-involvement-in-afghan-dog-airlift-says-mp), was dated 25 August and signed by her in her capacity as MP for Copeland in Cumbria and as “parliamentary private secretary to the prime minister”.
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>-
>
>([Guardian: Doubts cast on No 10 claims about letter clearing dog airlift out of Kabul](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/08/doubts-cast-on-no-10-claims-about-letter-clearing-dog-airlift-out-of-kabul))
Fucking knew it, this dognut behaviour was called out at the time.
I don’t even get this. This is a country where dogs are bad ju-ju, I would be kicking people into the way of Taliban trucks just to buy precious time to load more dogs onto the planes. Fuck this ‘humans are more important’ bullshit. No dog ever fucked with my life.
We had a year, and as many planes as we wanted to evacuate as many people as we wanted. We left it to the last minute *on purpose*, so we could abandon more people. The fact that we didn’t act like complete cunts 100% of the time is beside the point.
Fucking hell, forgot about the dog story in the pile of stories which all make Boris look like a shit
I was downvoted to he for saying this. People would constantly say how these workers by their choice are staying in Afghanistan and letting the animals be rescued. Fuck this guy and anyone that even defended him.
Even at the time, the evidence was pretty damning. It was reported that the animals were being prioritised over the shelter’s employees and how Farthing turned down the first rescue option so he could get the animals out of there. All it took was a nudge from Carrie for it to all go ahead.
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What pisses me off, is that Farthing said he wanted to get the animals and his staff out of there, and refuses to leave without the staff, BUT TOOK OFF without the staff
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​
even had seats being empty, I don’t care if you love animals and place them above human lives, but if A human life was worth a single cat, that cat is already dead to save a human, and I say that as someone who once had a pet cat, humans lives come before animals.
Farthing had no choice but to leave the evacuation til the last minute because animals were being evacuated. The government had almost a year to evacuate people.