The House of Commons cross-parliamentary foreign affairs committee has called for direct talks with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan, making their original decision to go to war ten years ago into little more than an evil farce.

The announcement by Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai that he intends to bring the Taliban back into government as part of a peace deal has underlined the pointlessness of the war which has cost the British taxpayer billions of pounds and the lives of at least 338 soldiers.

British foreign secretary William Hague has announced that UK taxpayers will increase foreign aid to Pakistan to £665 million as leaked Afghanistan war documents revealed that the Taliban is controlled and funded by the Pakistani government.

The utterly twisted priorities of David Cameron’s ConDem government have been well-illustrated once again with the announcement that £67 million more is to be spent countering roadside bombs in Afghanistan — when the obvious solution is for Britain to leave this pointless £5 billion-a-year war completely.