Afghanistan: What Next?
"The Taliban have claimed no "innocent" Afghans will be harmed.
"The problem is that their definition of "innocent" doesn't include teachers, doctors, anybody who has worked for the government, educated women and girls and many, many others," says North West Lib Dem President Jackie Pearcey of the current crisis in Afghanistan.
The Taliban have claimed no "innocent" Afghans will be harmed. The problem is that their definition of "innocent" doesn't include teachers, doctors, anybody who has worked for the govenrment, educated women and girls and many, many others.
- Jackie Pearcey (@jackiepearcey) August 15, 2021
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey MP has called on Prime Minister Johnson to bring UK political leaders together to consider responses to the unfolding situation in Afghanistan.
He commented:
"This situation in Afghanistan is moving fast, and it is extremely dangerous. Boris Johnson *must* call a meeting of UK political party leaders today."
This situation in Afghanistan is moving fast, and it is extremely dangerous. Boris Johnson *must* call a meeting of UK political party leaders today.
- Ed Davey MP 🔶🇪🇺 (@EdwardJDavey) August 15, 2021
MP Jamie Stone observes:
"I am utterly aghast. We have walked away from our long term commitments in Afghanistan - commitments which were generated by the very fact of our intervention. This is the result. It is nothing short of a betrayal."
I am utterly aghast. We have walked away from our long term commitments in Afghanistan - commitments which were generated by the very fact of our intervention. This is the result. It is nothing short of a betrayal.
- Jamie Stone MP (@Jamie4North) August 15, 2021
And Wera Hobhouse MP reflected on the situation for people living through this:
"My heart goes out to the Afghan people in this dreadful moment of fear and anxiety.
I particularly worry about women and girls and their future as free and equal members of their communities.
As UK Parliament is recalled we must expressed our unreserved solidarity with them."
My heart goes out to the Afghan people in this dreadful moment of fear and anxiety.
I particularly worry about women and girls and their future as free and equal members of their communities.
As UK Parliament is recalled we must expressed our unreserved solidarity with them.- Wera Hobhouse MP 🔶 (@Wera_Hobhouse) August 15, 2021