>>I was really thinking of the considerable number of holidaymakers who were stranded in the
>>Canaries when their flights were cancelled and unable to sort out an alternative way home For
>>themselves because the had no money.
I think there's an important attitude test which many/most of them fail. They choose to go on their holiday, in their way, and then believe it is their duty for everybody else to help them.
Though we get that type of holidaymaker here too. I happened to be in the Embassy when the Airlines began announcing that they would be cancelling flights.
There were many, really quite abusive, entitled, mostly middle-aged Brits recently of a cruise ship demanding to know what the British Embassy was going to do about flying them home. One of them when told there were flights the next day said that was no good since he didn't want to fly home until the following week. I'd have told the lot to sod off, but of course the Embassy has to try to be civil.
My experience of the Embassies, over many years, is that if you're up s***-creek through no fault of your own they'll do everything they can to help you. But if all you've got is inconvenience, or disrupted plans, or you've been breaking laws, they have no time for you.
It is typically that those Brits that think the Embassy is there as a private travel agent are the ones that complain the most.
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