You might want to have a look here, here, here and here.
Yes, the pond life that rule us have found another group they can betray. Surprised?
Others at those links explain it all in more detail and in more temperate language than I can or will. Simply, those who have worked for the British Forces in Iraq are, when the day of withdrawal comes, to be left to fend for themselves in that foetid swamp of insurgents, terrorists, Baathists, Islamists and general random murderous nutters who wish to kill them: as, indeed, they are already being killed.
There was a day when an Englishman’s word meant something: not all that long ago as well. I’ve been a beneficiary of this idea that we are an honourable people who do as we say we will, will do the right thing, as recently as the 1990s in Russia. I’ve no doubt that my brother, currently working in Kabul, benefits from it today.
There are those who think this unimportant: unfortunately they are also the scum who rule us.
Write to your MP. Email them, phone them. Spread the word. Comment on the newspaper blogs. Write letters to editors.
The French already think of us as Perfidious Albion: let’s not go and prove it to the whole world, eh?
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