Originally Posted by
Not_a_boffin
So Grangela is outraged that the Foreign Secretary uses a charter, rather than a commercial flight, when travelling
1. To Australia to discuss a highly sensitive tripartite agreement
2. During an ongoing crisis involving an potential European conflict
3. Over a duration of 19 hours
All of which will require discussion with her team and potentially SoS Defence and other Whitehall departments. What could possibly go wrong doing that on a commercial flight........?
It is a sad reflection on the capabilities of the media that no-one has pointed that out.
Agreed. Much as I am not a fan of Liz Truss I do think people need to think a bit harder before boarding the outrage bus on this specific issue…
Spend much time as either passenger or crew in certain cabins on scheduled flights and you start to see all sorts of interesting info bits of paper/laptop screens…. what’s “commercially sensitive” between friends?…
and then as you say there’s also the issue of discussions, perhaps on sensitive matters, at odd times of day or night..