I could right pages on the topic of the Embassies we British have to put up with. I've lived abroad as an expat all my adult life and really think it's one of the worst and least helpful embassies in the world. Their main function seems to be to extract as much money as they can from you and anyone else they can think of. The security obsessed Americans can add pages to a passport, we can't, we have to buy a new one. They are very resistant to actually forking out dosh compared to other countries when British citizens find themselves in a pickle abroad though. The British Embassy in BKK remained closed for "normal business" for months after the tsunami...too much work for the poor things no doubt. Other embassies managed to do it somehow, but not the Brits. They have also recently sold off prime land which used to be the embassy grounds for a fortune...I've a feeling the Brits never actually paid for that land, it was a gift I think.
And that's just the Embassy in Thailand ... other ones I've had to deal with in Africa, Europe and the Middle East were just as bad....worse sometimes.
I'm stuck with a British passport but I'm not particularly proud to be British at all. I don't miss the UK and have no desire to ever live there again. A European passport would be better but I'd rather have world citizenship. passport!
