{"id":1086291,"date":"2021-12-05T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1086291"},"modified":"2021-12-05T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:43:41","slug":"delingpole-uk-home-office-is-a-chocolate-fireguard-freedom-of-info-request-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delingpole-uk-home-office-is-a-chocolate-fireguard-freedom-of-info-request-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Delingpole: UK Home Office Is a Chocolate Fireguard, Freedom of Info Request Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdelingpole-uk-home-office-is-a-chocolate-fireguard-freedom-of-info-request-confirms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1086291&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1172805818-e1638699097154-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Some of the thousands of Afghan refugees who have been resettled in the UK since the Allied withdrawal pose a security risk. It could be a few of them or it could be a lot of them but we don\u2019t know how many because, we learn from a Freedom of Information request made by Breitbart\u2019s Jack Montgomery, the Home Office is apparently too embarrassed to tell us, claiming it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/04\/exclusive-uk-govt-claims-not-in-public-interest-disclose-how-many-afghan-evacuees-ex-deportees-watch-lists\/\">not be in \u201cthe public interest\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wait. What? There are few things, you might imagine, that are more in the public interest than national security. The British, though generally tolerant, are increasingly exhausted by the wave on wave of immigrants arriving both legally and illegally. If Priti Patel\u2019s Home Office is incapable of stopping them coming then at the very least it could try to weed out the ones hell-bent on killing us.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Unfortunately, though, it would appear that even this job is beyond the Home Office\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>At least one of these evacuees, we know, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/08\/24\/afghan-roulette-uk-france-accidentally-evacuate-security-risk-individuals\/\">had been on Britain\u2019s \u2018no-fly\u2019 list<\/a> \u2014 an indication that he was considered a potential threat. Another, a former Afghan special forces commando, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/09\/10\/uk-evacuated-afghan-special-forces-commando-arrested-by-british-police-in-dawn-raid\/\">arrested in a dawn raid<\/a> on a Manchester quarantine hotel.<\/p>\n<p>And those are just the ones we know about. Hence Jack Montgomery\u2019s Freedom of Information Act request to the Home Office asking exactly how many airlifted Afghans were subsequently \u201cfound to have previously been on \u2018no-fly\u2019 or \u2018no-entry\u2019 lists\u201d or to \u201chave previously been deported from the United Kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Home Office admits it knows the answer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/04\/exclusive-uk-govt-claims-not-in-public-interest-disclose-how-many-afghan-evacuees-ex-deportees-watch-lists\/\">But it won\u2019t tell us<\/a> because \u201cafter careful consideration\u201d it has decided it\u2019s not in our interests to disclose it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.6170212765957\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The British government said it knows how many Afghans airlifted to the UK were on watch lists or had previously been deported from the country \u2014 but insists it is not in the public interest to reveal it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9mWu7qMK1O\">https:\/\/t.co\/9mWu7qMK1O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1467352446406217728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Its proffered excuse is the usual mealy-mouthed nonsense we\u2019ve come to expect from the Deep State bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, giving a straight answer might \u201cprovide insight into the operational capabilities of Border Force intelligence-based operations and systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Too right it might. And the insight, I suspect, might go something like this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p>The Home Office is a chocolate fireguard. It is utterly incapable of defending Britain\u2019s borders. And its intelligence capabilities are laughable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the refugees Boris Johnson\u2019s government has welcomed to the United Kingdom from Afghanistan may well be \u201cdeserving\u201d candidates: Afghans, say, who have risked their lives as guides or interpreters and would now almost certainly be killed by the Taliban were they to stay behind.<\/p>\n<p>But many others may well be at best con-artists keen to take advantage of Britain\u2019s generous welfare system, at worst rapists, paedophiles, murderers, fifth columnists, or terrorists come to wreak havoc on their newly adopted home.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/04\/exclusive-uk-govt-claims-not-in-public-interest-disclose-how-many-afghan-evacuees-ex-deportees-watch-lists\/\">official response<\/a> will do little to allay the cynicism of those who believe that the latest Afghan war was an unutterable waste of blood and treasure and that, under cover of \u201cdoing the decent thing\u201d for interpreters, the sorry aftermath of President Joe Biden\u2019s botched withdrawal is being used as yet another excuse to advance the globalist masterplan for open borders and internal division.<\/p>\n<p>Nor, of course, does it do anything to inspire confidence in either the Boris Johnson regime nor in the arrogant, overpaid, smug, incompetent, left-wing Civil Service. Both of them are supposed to be answerable to the British public. Neither of them, clearly, gives a stuff about this responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, both the political class and the bureaucratic class grow more remote and arrogant by the day. The response to this FOIA request shows that the government and its administrators no longer bother even to pretend to value transparency.<\/p>\n<p>They are useless; we know they are useless; they know that we know they are useless. And this troubles them not one jot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8653846153846\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Farage Blasts Pay Rises for Border Force and Home Office Amid Migrant Failure <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7nCjdZS1Vu\">https:\/\/t.co\/7nCjdZS1Vu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1422946176605855750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the thousands of Afghan refugees who have been resettled in the UK since the Allied withdrawal pose a security risk. 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