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April 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - My Sat Nav is broken! I can’t find my false teeth! Where can I get hold of a dog-minder? What’s the weather like tomorrow?
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Eddie Wrenn
02:35 EST, 5 April 2012
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05:19 EST, 5 April 2012
Don’t waste time with frivolous calls: Foreign Secretary William Hague’s plea to tourists and ex-pats
British nationals are wasting embassy time with ‘ludicrous’ inquiries about lost false teeth, runny jam and plastic surgery problems, William Hague said today.
The Foreign Secretary urged expats and tourists not to stretch scarce consular resources by making ‘bizarre demands’.
Among the calls logged by overseas Foreign Office staff are requests for help erecting a chicken coop, advice on where to have Christmas lunch in Spain and a plea for assistance translating ‘I love you’ into Hungarian.
Mr Hague said: ‘It is not our job, for example, to book you restaurants while you are on holiday.
‘This is obvious, you may think. But nonetheless it came as a surprise to the caller in Spain who was having difficulty finding somewhere to have Christmas lunch.
‘If, like a man in Florida last year, you find ants in your holiday rental, we are not the people to ask for pest control advice.
‘If you are having difficulty erecting a new chicken coop in your garden in Greece as someone else was, I am afraid that we cannot help you.’
Mr Hague then listed a dozen other issues that had confronted Foreign Office staff when they answered the phone.
‘Equally, I have to say that we are not the people to turn to if:
– you can’t find your false teeth,
– if your Sat Nav is broken and you need directions,
– if you are unhappy with your plastic surgery,
– if your jam won’t set,
– if you are looking for a dog-minder while you are on holiday,
– if your livestock need checking on,
– if you would like advice about the weather,
– or if you want someone to throw a coin into the Trevi fountain for you because you forgot while you were on holiday and you want your marriage to succeed.
‘And our commitment to good relations with our neighbours does not, I am afraid, extend to translating ‘I love you’ into Hungarian, as we were asked to do by one love-struck British tourist.
‘There are easier ways to find a translation.’
Holiday-makers in Girona, Spain: If you have an emergency, phone the Foreign Office. If you don’t, then leave them alone!
In the speech on strengthening Britain’s consular diplomacy, Mr Hague said Britons make more than 55 million individual trips overseas every year and around six million live abroad for some of or all of the time.
Around one in ten murders of Britons in the last two years took place overseas and around 6,000 nationals are arrested every year.
Mr Hague said the figures showed the ‘immense demand’ for the service.
He added: ‘We ask British nationals to be responsible, to be self-reliant and to take sensible precautions.’
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Just a stupid bald funny man..the foil for a useless out of touch government..Never mind..I,m sure your mummy still believes you..Oh..and for ANYONE in trouble abroad.and has had the need to contact the British embasy/Consulate or any other official bum..you don,t need reminding just how useless and disinterrested they are..Trouble abroad?..pray..wish..contact the scouts..Forget the useless tripe infesting the embassies.. Forget this bald idiot..
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If I wanted to know how to build a chicken coop, I’d ask someone who KNEW…………. certainly NOT the FCO…………..
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Please get rid of this ghastly idiot in the next cabinet reshuffle
he is such a joke
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The problem is that too many people are dependent and cannot think for themselves – hence we have people contacting the emergency services for piddling little things.
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A lot of truth in what he says,it seems to me that a lot of Brits forget to pack their common sense with their suncreams
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Lets be honest they do nothing for ex pats,even though we pay twice as much for our passports,our local one only opens three days a week now as the other two days are taken up by paper work and if we do need any thing,they charge us a fortune for the privilege of it.
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This is a refelection of the “Nanny State” in which the British have been brought up where self reliance is a thing of the past.
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He added: ‘We ask British nationals to be responsible, to be self-reliant and to take sensible precautions.’
—– If Britons had done that there is now way the Torry or Labour would have been in government! This is exactly what British governments for the past 20 years have been working to avoid. Dave is going to be ticked off when he finds out!
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Having watched the recent programmes about the Consuls in Majorca, Barcelona, Ibiza and Tenerife, I am just amazed by the stupidity of people and their expectation that the Consul will dig them out of their (mostly) self-inflicted holes!
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The search for intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe continues…..
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