I listened to the BBC Today programme this morning run this item.
“The British government believes there is a significant possibility it was a bomb that brought down the Russian plane flying out of Egypt on Saturday and many thousands of British people – perhaps 20,000 – are stranded in Sharm el-Sheikh. Lyse Doucet is our chief international correspondent in Cairo; we also hear from ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, spokesperson for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, and the Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.”
Just a few points. Hammond was given a real grilling over the decision to temporarily suspend flights in and out of Sharm el Sheikh. I found this strange as it is obvious the UK government is rightly putting the lives of BRITISH tourists ahead of Egyptian tourism. This seemed to unsettle the comrades. Why? I have plenty of beefs with the UK government in respect of how it deals with the terrorist threat but I really fail to understand BBC angst over this one.
Secondly, as if the people of this area haven’t suffered enough, Lyse Douchet descends upon the area like the angle of death to heap misery on misery.

