Obviously Minister this is a disaster! We can't have entire units of Royal Navy personnel, with officers, being rounded up by a few crazed Arabs in Dhows and taken to Iran!
So we have to play it down, Humphrey?
We have to deplore it! We must ask for their return in no uncertain manner!
And when we get them back? Courts Martial?
Er, no minister.
What, you ,mean keep it quiet?
Indeed no minister. That would imply that we had something to hush up.
You mean something to be ashamed of?
Yes, minister.
Suppose we let them tell their side of things. Give them permission to talk to the press, even make some money?
An inspired decision, minister!
Even build them into heroes?
Well that would certainly take courage. But not theirs.
Ha ha! No Humphrey. Perhaps we can just talk up the horrific Iranian brutality?
Indeed, yes minister.
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