Thousands of British citizens have been abandoned by the very people whose job was to protect them.
The Government secretly spirited embassy staff out of war-torn Sudan, days before a delayed airlift of those left behind. Nobody stayed to organise a getaway.
Well, other countries did worse than us, bleated the inadequate Foreign Secretary James Cleverly yesterday.
Terrified Brits are fleeing on desert roads to the coast, or north to Egypt, braving roadblocks manned by trigger-happy thugs in uniform.
The RAF has flown out several hundred and frigate HMS Lancaster is sailing to Port Sudan, but thousands remain trapped. The situation is desperate.
This isn’t just a failure of the FO diplomatic service. It’s yet another indictment of this lazy, good-for-nothing government’s lack of a plan – for anything.
They had no plan for the return of high inflation, no plan for exiting Afghanistan when the Taliban swept into power, no plan for the Covid pandemic, and no plan for the cost-of-living or energy crises.
No plan for housing and homelessness, for foodbanks and hunger poverty. Even Boris Johnson now admits “we had no plan for Brexit”.
And above all, they have no plan for the current year of industrial unrest hitting -everywhere from hospitals to schools and universities.
This negligence isn’t accidental, or an act of God. It’s deliberate.
Real, systematic planning for events is anathema to the Tories. It smacks of socialism, so they don’t do it.
They only have a crude roadmap: win the election by whatever means, fair or foul, and stay in power, by whatever means, ditto. They don’t believe in governing, only in being in government. Once in power, they fly by the seat of their pants, and if Johnson is PM, somebody else has to buy the trousers.
This latest failure to think ahead won’t be the last. There will be more, before voters get the chance to do it for them.
