Afghan Relocation Scheme - £7bn going to be spent

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg8zy78787o.amp

How did they find the money for this? Also, no checks to confirm what sort of people we are letting into the country.

This country is an utter disaster,m

Nigel Garage no doubt.

It’s absolutely right they be taken of. Why would anyone expect differently? Are the lives of Afghan people who helped not worth saving?

These figures were probably not included in immigration numbers so net migration is even higher than reported.

£7bn being spent when the country is borrowing billions every month just to pay its bills.

There will be massive fraud in this system where people are joining the scheme where they’re not even eligible. Money will be changing hands all over to literately buy these visas.

This country is a joke, the governments past and present are a joke and the joke is on the taxpayer.

Not white enough.

unlike eg Ukraine 🙄

Does anyone know how many interpreters have arrived overall? There seems to be a limitless number of interpreters.

I was appalled to see the headline and photo relating to this on sky news website earlier. They had illustrated this story with a picture of armed taliban fighters. So misleading and inflammatory. I complained. It has been changed now but the public are being fed this in a very negative way. The media is just awful.

Oh get a grip 😴

The leak was probably done on purpose by a left wing home office official. And the government probably lapped it up because it gave them a free pass to open the door to the whole group of people.

I am pretty anti immigration.

Well the quantity more so let’s say. And that’s more of a final reaction of after many years deciding that until people are capable of having a sensible conversation then the short answer is no.

But these people; of course we have to let them in. That is the moral and ethical thing to do. And that is the Britain I know and expect us to be.

Which Government?

Do you know when the leak happened?

You go to sleep mrs anonymous username.

When the US and its allies; notably us invaded and tried in vain to rearrange Afghanistan, a whole load of people helped us out in our aims.

The whole thing failed obviously and the taliban are now in charge again.

Should we not help those people that tried to help us?

Honestly, this country pretends to be Christian. Most of you lot haven’t got the first clue what that means.

£7bn was the original forecasted "worst case" cost. £850m is the current forecasted total.

The money came out of the Ministry of Defences' budget, not additional spending.

While the cost is spread over a few years, it represents about 1.5% of the MOD's annual budget (so probably more like 0.5% p/a for three years).

The people being relocated are those who worked with the British Militarily, whose lives are (accordingly) at significant risk.

Not only is there an overwhelming moral case but there's a practical one - who on Earth would work the the British military again if they hang you out to dry and accidentally leak their personal data?

I cannot even begin to try getting worked up over the cost.

The people who bleat on about “Western Values” of Tolerance, Liberalism, Freedom of Expression etc, are the ones who display it least. “Everyone who lives here should be like us” are not Western Values.

The British taxpayer.

What do you think should happen to these people - let them be killed by the Taliban because they are known to have worked with the British?

This is the right thing to do.

It's the least we can do in fact given the danger we put them in.

We completely screwed these people over. They risked their lives for our forces, on the promise we would protect them in the future, then we left them high and dry. The least we can do is offer them help now.

Anyone who thinks this is the wrong thing to do needs to look deep inside themselves and find out what went wrong in their life.

For some wild reason we (in the West) seem to think everyone across the world shares our values!

British soldiers reported their allied Afghan soldiers and citizens engaged in the rape of young boys.

https://aoav.org.uk/2025/bearing-witness-to-silence-how-uk-soldiers-were-traumatised-by-and-were-ordered-not-to-stop-the-rape-of-boys-in-afghanistan/

’Bacha bazi’ / ‘boys for play’ are an afghani tradition of using young boys for entertainment and sex https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/12/dancing-boys-afghanistan

This is incompatible with nations who believe in female sexual empowerment and expect men to show self control and not look at the world though sex crazed eyes

Name changed for this. I have expertise in local govt and can attest that this has been going on for years with millions lavished on the scheme, to buy houses for use by these people , even though my council is a small one. Millions handed over to buy houses for this scheme, only for use by Afghan settlers. Cannot be used by other settlers or British homeless .They have also been housed in local army base etc. The £7bn sadly doesn’t surprise me at all, suspect the actual costs will be higher. Morally I have concerns that the scheme excludes local homeless etc, and isn’t affordable nationally . We are financially stretched to breaking point and in terminal cultural , social and economic decline. I feel guilty for brining my children into this mess, and say that as someone who is comfortably off. Really feel for British people with fewer choices than myself.

Yes, do you want their loved ones left behind to be put at risk of death and or torture. Blame the govt for involving us in this mess to begin within. As long as we keep having a hand in foreign wars and de-stabilising the lands and homes of others, there will be a price to pay.

So both @Repottingtheplants and @Msmfailedusbad have

ZERO POSTS

on MN

go figure.

@Msmfailedusbad why did you name change? Why couldn’t you post what you wrote on your normal username (lol)

Nothing they weren't paying for already.

first of all, that website is looks extremely dodgy.
second, whilst i think bacha bazi is abhorrent ( although as an afghan myself its not nearly as common as the media would like you to believe, even the taliban themselves condemn it and its basically only going on in very very rural backwards villages so rare) do british men not rape and get away with it? Why are we pretending that british men do not commit heinous actions themselves?

It sounds like you don't understand your job or the scheme.

Bacha bazi is not endorsed by even the Taliban gov, just like how the uk gov does not endorse the rise in misogyny and brutal murders of women eg sarah everard