“I think we are only beginning to learn the scale of what has gone on here.”

Yes, some of the damage the Johnson government has done to Britain won’t be apparent for years. But eventually, it will be clear to the entire world.

“Former UK Veterans Minister: We’ve Taken in Afghan Evacuees ‘We Really Shouldn’t Have,’” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, September 23, 2021 (thanks to Henry):

Former British defense minister Johnny Mercer has warned that Boris Johnson’s government has evacuated some Afghans “we really shouldn’t have”, while many deserving cases have been abandoned.

Mercer, a former Captain in the 29th Commando Regiment, Royal Artillery who served three tours of duty in Afghanistan, made the remarks in the context of the Ministry of Defence admitting to a second leak of vulnerable Afghans personal information by email.

“I’ve been concerned from the start as to how these individuals have been treated — the whole thing was such a rush to the door when Kabul fell that these mistakes were inevitable,” he said, although there is little excuse for the nature of this particular leak, which resulted from an official or officials not taking the basic security precaution of bcc’ing recipients of an email to Afghans hoping to be evacuated, so their contact information and in some cases profile pictures would not be visible to everyone.

Perhaps more concerning for many members of the public, Mercer also said that in his view “we’ve taken out people we really shouldn’t have, and failed to bring out the majority of those we should,” adding: “I think we are only beginning to learn the scale of what has gone on here