I am proud that our nation took in refugees from Ukraine, many of whom were in safe nations such as Moldova and Poland when they needed sanctuary. There was a need and the applications for asylum were processed quickly.
I do not understand why the same is not being done for people from Afghanistan, notably, those who are linked to the UK when we had a presence there. We have Afghan soldiers who face execution if returned to Afghanistan waiting in Pakistan among many others we have a duty to help. I suspect that the reason that they are being left to rot is because they are Muslim.
We have shown that asylum applications can be processed quickly. Instead, the government have allowed loads of asylum seekers to be held up in hotels while more cross The English Channel. A cynic would argue that the reason that they have done this is to make this into an election issue...
