#BorisJohnsonlies: it seems he authorised animal charity airlift from Afghanistan after all

The only airlift he’ll admit authorising: Boris Johnson.

Remember when Boris Johnson insisted that he had nothing to do with a decision to airlift Pen Farthing and animals at his Nowzad dog rescue charity from Afghanistan, in the retreat from that country last August?

Here he is:

Cracks appeared in that claim last month:

And now it seems to have been shattered altogether with the release of two Foreign Office emails.

One lobbies for the rescue of a second animal charity because Johnson had agreed to evacuate Nowzad: “The PM has just authorised their staff and animals to be evacuated.”

The second, between FO officials, states: “In light of the PM’s decision earlier today [August 25, 2021] to evacuate the staff of the Nowzad animal charity, the [other animal charity – name redacted] is asking for agreement to the entry of [details redacted] staff, all Afghan nationals.”

The issue is controversial because human beings were left behind. Some have since travelled out of Afghanistan and tried to gain entry into the country.

Damningly for the UK’s Tory government, some have died in the attempt.

Downing Street insists its position is unchanged and that Johnson did not authorise the airlift.

But then, Downing Street insisted that no lockdown-busting parties had taken place there, so what are those words worth?

5 Comments

  1. Hecuba January 26, 2022 at 7:19 pm - Reply

    This is a blatant lie – ‘The second, between FO officials, states: “In light of the PM’s decision earlier today [August 25, 2021] to evacuate the staff of the Nowzad animal charity, the [other animal charity – name redacted] is asking for agreement to the entry of [details redacted] staff, all Afghan nationals.”

    The issue is controversial because human beings were left behind. Some have since travelled out of Afghanistan and tried to gain entry into the country.’

    What really happened was Minister of Defence Ben Wallace decided to veto little fascist duck johnson’s orders because he Wallace didn’t like Pen Farthing! Wallace refused to even allow Nowzad to have their privately chartered plane land in Kabul!

    Nowzad finally managed to rescue the animals via private donations and no money from the fascist tory government was given to Nowzad. Nowzad have consistently stated their airlift of the animals was carried out without any financial aid from the fascist tory government.

    The reason why so many Afghan women, children and men were not airlifted out of Kabul was due solely to the deliberate refusal of fascist tory Foreign Office to process the visas and other paperwork! The fascist tory government never intended to airlift those “nasty non English women, children and men out of Kabul.’ Remember that ex Foreign Minister Dominic Raab was sunbathing in Crete when the evacuation of a few Afghan women, children and men occurred and Raab refused to return to the UK!

    Blame little fascist duck johnson and his cabal of lackeys – not Nowzad.

    https://www.nowzad.com/Portals/0/Downloads/news/Pages%20from%20Edition%20Dog%20-%20Issue%2036.pdf?ver=CdSKaGWEDkb4Uyacl7a8Yg%3D%3D&fbclid=IwAR2XjUWrm3vxRiCLj24_sGCgl4XqEyFo0LEk-UF1rcEpK6PT1AdN07xIvbc

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/29/ministers-seemed-asleep-on-watch-over-safety-of-afghans-says-ex-army-chief-richard-dannatt

    • Mike Sivier January 29, 2022 at 2:40 am - Reply

      There is no attempt to blame Nowzad for anything in the article.

      My understanding is that, yes, it was indeed a chartered flight (funded by Nowzad) but it required UK government authorisation to actually take off. This authorisation was not forthcoming from Ben Wallace, who seemed hostile to the charity. Then suddenly he appeared to change his mind – but not in time for the Nowzad staff to be able to take the flight.

      The question here is, who authorised the flight? Was it Wallace, Johnson, or somebody else? And why is the Tory government so desperate to hide this detail?

      It seems to me that the most likely explanation is that it was Johnson but that if this is revealed, it will show that he has lied publicly – yet again – and at the current sensitive time that could be enough to tip him out of Downing Street, so it is being hidden.

  2. Hecuba January 26, 2022 at 8:00 pm - Reply

    NOWZAD have issued a public statement concerning the leaked emails. NOWZAD refute the latest fascist tory lies!

    https://www.nowzad.com/news/article/statement-on-leaked-emails-reference-operation-ark

    And this detailed evidence Pen Farthing gave to the Commons’ Select Committee debunking the latest fascist tory lies.

    https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/42461/pdf/

    The fascist tories constantly engage in systemic lies and attempting to deflect us peasants away from the real issues which is little england has a fascist dictatorship and worse a cabal of crooked criminal tory MPs and Ministers who continue to steal our public money for their own personal financial gain!

    • Mike Sivier January 29, 2022 at 2:41 am - Reply

      How does this contradict the claim that Johnson authorised the airlift?

  3. kateuk January 26, 2022 at 11:27 pm - Reply

    I read that the plane would have taken human evacuees as well but the government couldn’t get the paperwork sorted out in time…

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