lemongrove
That’s a whole other thread PippaZ for discussion of the police bill.
Threads meander, lemon and Pippa's contribution had some pertinence. So many deferred inquires...
All of a piece with deferred planning for just such an emergency as the current one. The Doha Agreement was signed 18 months ago. Plenty of time for the FO to be working on planning for differing scenarios arising from the US pullout of troops. As one would surely expect them to do.
But I have read, in a different context, that Johnson has no liking for contingency plans, working on the dubious grounds that planning for a contingency is more likely to activate the contingency planned for
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Like Theresa May, I am 'surprised' that our intelligence failed to notice that since the signing the Taliban had been setting up agreements with the local tribal leaders in preparation for the US withdrawal and a rapid move to gain control of the country..