a very moving speech that shames this government https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/aug/18/emotional-wounds-have-been-t "The government had planned for the Taliban, the prime minister insisted. They’d been commissioning an emergency handling centre upwards of two weeks ago. If you saw this coming,” Angela Eagle launched early, with laudable succinctness, “why were you both on holiday?” As with the beginnings of the pandemic, the bloated buffoon yet again skipped off on holiday. Whatever warped joke some might have thought it would be to inflict this incompetent liar upon us, it has backfired badly for over 20 months. The cost in lives lost, will now be added to by those in Afghanistan. | |