Story with happy ending. Alex, my Albanian barber, naturalised British, desperate to get to Tirana after Dad taken ill. Can't get flight. Drives to France. Turned back. Takes ferry to Holland, gets to Montenegro border. Stopped, UK passport no good to get thru. He calls me 1/4
I give him some numbers. Five hours later he is being escorted into Albania by a diplomat. Meantime I learn there is an APP on which people can contact directly ministers and the PM @ediramaal with problems. Also people with similar problems solved by going on his FB page 2/4
The difference between the incompetence and lack of empathy there, and our own government, is stunning. Shameful too to think a UK passport gets you stopped, and it took official Albanian support to get him thru. What have we become as a country with these Vote Leave clowns? 3/4
Then to see that grinning charlatan @BorisJohnson talk in Parliament about how well he was doing.If he did not have a posh voice and Eton/Oxford on his CV, he wouldn't get a job in Alex's barber shop, let alone in Downing Street. Safe travels,hope Dad OK. Falemenderit Albania 4/4
