Originally Posted by
Ninthace
Lazy journalism pandering the the DT xenophobic/racist readership.
Could it have been foreseen and should they have travelled? Well, given absence of the ambassador, his 2 i/c and sundry others from the country al at the same time, one concludes either it was not or that they do not read their own advice.
On the contrary ......... an unkind and probably unfair view would be that they appear to have taken their own advice, and made themselves scarce, followed soon afterwards by the remainder of their staff, leaving our armed forces to tidy up.
Regardless of any good reasons for the above, it was, yet again, not a good look..
Difficult to know which one of the Home Office or the Foreign Office is more disfunctional.