Evacuating Britons from Libya: why did we take so long to find the planes? – Telegraph Blogs

Evacuating Britons from Libya: why did we take so long to find the planes? – Telegraph Blogs: "It is good news that the first British people have been evacuated from Libya, but the question remains: why did it take so long? Many other countries were able to organise flights to repatriate their nationals, so why were we so slow off the mark?
I have no doubt that William Hague was as alert to the dangers as his opposite numbers in countries such as Poland. I am sure he instructed officials at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to get on with chartering aircraft to do the job. But what went wrong? Why could an oil company beat the Government in mounting a timely rescue bid?
Having sat all too often in terminal buildings, or on the flight deck of aircraft, stuck in unattractive places with technical faults, I know well enough that those wretched gremlins take a fiendish delight in grounding aircraft at the worst possible times and in the worst possible places."

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