Afghan asylum scheme is the 'scandal of all scandals', Heath tells GB News
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Jul 17, 2025
The UK's uncovered Afghan asylum scheme will "accelerate change" and a "reset" in British politics, it has been claimed.Speaking to GB News, Editor of The Sunday Telegraph Allister Heath predicted that "change is coming" for Westminster following the revelation.FULL STORY HERE.
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Why is this story so important
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I think it symbolises everything that's gone wrong with the UK. It's the scandal of all scandals
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It's where everything has gone wrong and sort of merges into one mega-story
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Because, you know, you've got every aspect of what's gone wrong over the past 20 years. The war in Iraq and Afghanistan, which was a disaster
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Excessive amount of immigration and not enough integration, which was a disaster. You know, the grooming gang scandal
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Everything, it all comes together. The powers that the state seized during lockdown
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The war on free speech. and it all comes together in this story, which is a major scandal, a major, major cover-up
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and a disgrace, frankly, an absolute disgrace. Isn't it the case that now there is such a distrust
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in our political class? I mean, me personally, I don't see left and right
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I don't even see red and blue Labour and Tories. I put them all in the same basket as being
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and people will say this is strong language, quite treacherous in the way they behave, to even consider, I know the figure yesterday from the MOD
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was £850 million, but... I don know By the way and now that we may have to pay up to a billion pounds in compensation to these Afghans I mean do you sense from your own readers that the nation is feeling betrayed by a traitor class
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Or is that too strong? I wouldn't go that far myself. I think these politicians are wrong and incompetent
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but I wouldn't go further than that. You think it's just incompetence? No, I think the ideology is also wrong
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because I think they don't particularly like nation states, they're obsessed with human rights law
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they are what I call social democratic universalists. That is to say, they believe that the British welfare state
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and the British state has a duty that's roughly equal when it comes to foreign citizens or British citizens
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which is why, you know, they've got this, they're very interested in the duty of care when it comes to
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for example, these people that are coming over. But I think the fundamental issue here is that this is a scandal
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that engulfs both Labour and the Conservative Party. And therefore, you know, this whole idea that the two parties
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are far too close, far too similar, far too in the middle, has been proved to be correct
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The Conservatives did this in the first place and Labour kept it going for a year. And that's
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unacceptable. There was no competition, effectively, between those two political parties, no disagreement
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And I think it time for a major reset A very large percentage of the population feels alienated by the political system They feel that their views are not sufficiently represented And when they look at this scandal they think
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yes, that's exactly it. This scandal tells us everything we thought we knew
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about the political class, but actually it's even worse than that. But is that comprehensible
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What am I trying to say? Is that because all of these subsequent governments
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have been seduced by the idea of a global vision. So Agenda 2030, which we have signed up to
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with sustainability goals, at which point by 2030 we may see that migration is..
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There is no such thing as migration, because we have one planet, and the nation-state will be so sufficiently eroded by 2030
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that it just won't matter, and that actually you can be a climate migrant
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and you can blame climate change to come and live here. That is one of the aims of the global institutions
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And isn't the problem that our individual politicians are not strong enough to push back against that
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Well, I think all of that's coming to an end, actually. I think this crisis will be remembered as one of the moments
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when that whole ideological edifice started to crumble. You know I think clearly you going to see the emergence of parties maybe the Conservative Party maybe Reform others who are going to be much more strict when it comes to controlling immigration much less in favour of net zero You know the tectonic plates are shifting
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For example, you have The Economist magazine saying that the asylum system is broken and needs to be completely changed
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You're going to have more and more voices calling for the withdrawal. I mean, quitting VCHR is now mainstream on the right
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I mean, no-one on the right who's really on the right or on the centre-right still believes in VCHR
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And the same is going to be true of various refugee conventions and so on. There's going to be a major shift, I think
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This shift's taking place. We don't notice that the shift is coming because we're governed by a Labour Party
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that's very much of the left, very much, you know, signed up to all these global visions
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global left-wing visions. But change is coming, I think, and I think this scandal will accelerate that change
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And who can we thank for that? The change coming. I think social media plays a big part in that
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alternative media, and actually newspapers like your own that are managing to stay on the..
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I think, obviously, journalists have exposed the scandals and downsides of this ideology
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but also normal people are noticing that it's not working, right? And when you realise there's a problem, when you see these scandals
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when you see that things are... You know, the price of energy is spiraling out of control
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there's going to be energy rationing, there's too much crime, all that kind of thing, it makes you question the dominant ideology
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