One man on a beach has held a Country to ransom
Only one man? Gosh, you've got better intelligence than SIA and FCO combined.
58 tourists have been killed in Tunisia since March this year. Fact.
Tunisia is a post-revolutionary state with indefensible borders and a security apparatus that is trying hard, but by almost any measure you care to choose, is incapable of controlling the situation.
I can assure you that changes to travel advice issued by the FCO are not taken lightly. It is a cross-departmental decision; I have been fortunate to witness the decision-making process fairly recently.
In a theoretical example, the impact of adverse travel advice on the local economy is considered (along with the wider and longer-term security implications). The reputation of UK plc is regarded; DIME responses are gamed.
However, the bottom line is, that apart from a handful of persons entitled to UK protection who live there, overwhelmingly British interest in Tunisia is discretionary - ie, a cheap all-inclusive holiday in the sun. Should more UK subjects be exposed to danger - including the Consular Response Teams, and,potentially, service personnel, so that old slappers can have a fling with a Tunisian barman and overweight middle-aged men can top up their melanomas?
It's not as if Whitehall has decided to surrender a piece of UK territory to marauding gangs of IŞID-inspired gunmen.
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