Jennifer's uncle, Donald Gillies, said the government should have done more to help the family and others trapped in Sudan to get to safety, as people have been told they must make their own way to the airbase.
'Without a shadow of a doubt the government should have done more, it was, in my opinion, a dereliction of duty,' he said.
'The way the diplomats fled the country. The military went in to their houses to take them and their children out but the normal civilians are seen as of lesser importance.'
He labelled the government's communication to British citizens 'chaos' and said that people should have been warned about potential conflict in the country, as US citizens had prior to the fighting breaking out.
So, did it creep up on her? Did she fly in for a holiday without scoping the place out? Reader, not exactly. She's lived there fifteen years...
The English teacher moved to the north African country after meeting Mohamed as a student in Glasgow over 15 years ago.
If she's lived there for that long, the warning signs that the country was headed downhill were presumably ignored. Why is that the UK government's fault, or responsibility?
I would imagine she thought Sudan was less dangerous than Glasgow 🙂
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I'd imagine so Jaded.
ReplyDeleteBut even I, when I heard that two generals commanding separate forces had chucked out the former dictator, did wonder how long it'd hold together.
If she was to come back to Glasgow now, there are parts she would feel quite at home in.
ReplyDeleteShe could even continue as an English teacher. Or interpreter. English, Weegian, and Arabic.
Which government was in 'power' when she decided to stop working here and go over there?
ReplyDeleteWeren't we good enough fifteen years ago?
Darwin in action. It's not like we are going to lose a potential Nobel Prize winner. Just another idiot and we have plenty of those.
ReplyDelete"I would imagine she thought Sudan was less dangerous than Glasgow 🙂"
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"... did wonder how long it'd hold together."
Well, quite! The writing was on the wall in huge letters.
"If she was to come back to Glasgow now, there are parts she would feel quite at home in."
True!
"Weren't we good enough fifteen years ago?"
You might say that, I couldn't possibly comment!
"Darwin in action. It's not like we are going to lose a potential Nobel Prize winner. "
Spot on!
Because no-one is responsible for their own actions anymore as has been hammered into impressionable young minds, for decades, in our Marxist infested, discipline-free, knowledge-lite, I-know-my-rights, evreeee-chuyyyullld-is-preshuuuuss, daytime grooming units masquerading as schools.
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