Originally Posted by
valefan16
One suggestion was the only reason the FCO is still blanket advising against all essential travel was to avoid diplomatic relations being damaged with countries that would not be advised to travel to which is crazy if true.
But that is how the Foreign Office has long worked. Their most important thing in the universe is to avoid upsetting prickly foreign officials of selected countries, and the most effective way to do that is to have one rule for all. This is notable for example with UK airport security. Every transit passenger is rescreened, from everywhere, as if we do not trust any foreign security. Of course we would do, for some, but if there were selective rules the ones in the Not Trusted camp would take the hump - in fact, they are commonly the group more likely to.