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So, the UKBA are to strike on Thurs. All we need now is for the drones at airporty security to go on strike and travelling will be civilised again. Personally, l think both should go on strike indefinitely ... no-one will miss them,
UPDATE
"Moutie Abrahams, 42, who flew in on a packed BA flight from Cape Town, said: "We came here two months ago and we stood in queues for a really long time. Today it was much quicker."
"At Terminal 5 the Brazilian national rugby team travelling to a tournament in Cornwall said it took about 15 minutes to get through passport control. "It seems normal," said Erick Cogliandro, 27, who travelled on an Italian passport and had even shorter queues to contend with. His team-mates had few problems: "They just took 15 minutes. I don't know what normal is here but it was pretty empty."
"Gatwick said the average passport queue was around six minutes. A spokeswoman said: "Everything is fine."
See ... what did l tell you? :-)
P.S. "lndudstry" ... l like this word :-) ... see comments.
This audio is about being detained for approx 2 hrs by UKBA with help from uniformed Police. At no time was any legal justifiable reason given. ln fact during the whole 2hr episode UKBA only showed their faces for just 2 small periods of 3.32 mins and 3.26 mins. During all this time they never gave any legal justifiable reason to the 2 uniformed policemen as to why they should legally detain. This is despite the UKBA's own force. operations manual where it states:-
"REASONS for requesting assistance should be CLEARLY stated to the officers of the other agency to allow them the opportunity to consider whether there is JUSTIFIABLE CAUSE for exercising any of their own powers"
These policemen became very uncomfortable and unsure of the position they were put in by UKBA. Note at 20.11 in the audio the policeman says he has no idea of what he would use to carry out an arrest. At 31.04 one of the 2 policemen asks his collegaue to get the UKBA officer back.
One has to feel for them as they were being blatantly used by UKBA who had no regard for the position they had put the policemen in. As it was obvious that they were in a somewhat tricky situation, no attempt was made to make their position worse. The enemy was the UKBA so a non-aggressive approach (either verbal or otherwise) was decided upon in regards to dealing with the policemen.
Remember also that entry was denied to the UK to British citizens who had proof of citizenship and identity. This violates the 1971 Immigration Act where it states :-
"1.
General principles.
—(1) All those who are in this Act expressed to have the right of abode in the United Kingdom shall be free to live in, and to come and go into and from, the United Kingdom without let or hindrance except such as may be required under and in accordance with this Act to enable their right to be established or as may be otherwise lawfully imposed on any person.
—(1)A person is under this Act to have the right of abode in the United Kingdom if—
(a)
he is a British citizen; or"
One should also note that the UKBA officer asked to look into the baggage despite still detaining British citizens and not yet allowing them entry into the UK and consequent baggage retrieval area where once passengers have collected their baggage and then make the decision through which Customs channel to proceed.The baggage was later brought into the no-mans area at approx 30.40 in the audio but ofcourse not yet through any Customs channels.
Note refusal of a glass of water!
The Recording
Done the best l can do with it. lt starts very scratchy but that disappears quickly. You have to remember that these recordings are done in an hostile enviroment and the recorders are hidden. We will get better so please give us some slack. For those not that interested in the general but still very relevant content, the UKBA officer is at 9.53 and the ending is at 31.22. An amazing ending if l may say so myself.
The whole recording has been edited down from 2hrs to 34.48 mins. The 2 silent periods are to break the recording down to 3 distinct parts.
Finally, there are written complaints that have been delivered to UKBA, Police and the Airport regarding this incident that are on going. Oh, and l haven't forgot about Part 3 of the previous recording. lt's just that this one is much more interesting. Part 3 of the other is an audio account of the UKBA interrogation and is very long ... hence lots of work.
BA Chairman says we should stop kow-towing to US increasingdemands.
Common sense emigrated a long time ago. At some point, somewhere in the world, a suicide bomber is going detonate a bomb (or even just attempt to) actually at airport security. When that happens what will the security circus do then? … pre airport security? lf an attack then happens there … pre pre airport security?
Admittedly, we have had a terrorist attack but these were not foreign nationals. Remind me again where this attack took place? … ah yes, the Tube! Lots of security there nowadays isn’t there? No travellers taking large suitcases etc onboard then??? Not to forget the buses either.
Don’t worry though, when you get to the airport everything will be checked to make sure you’re ‘safe’ and if there’s any suspect liquids … they’ll be confiscated and all thrown together in a big box!
What about travelling on the Inter-City trains? Surely there’s security comparable to airports there? … No, sorry … afraid not.
Ferries then? Like the P&O ferries that travel daily/hourly to and from mainland Europe? Surely there’s tight security there? … No, sorry … afraid not. You can get a bus (literally) onboard a ferry with no checks whatsoever except for passport checks.
But don’t panic because all suicide bomber terrorists (foreign) are totally stupid and have OCD about aircraft and so will get caught at airport security. They won’t detonate before they get on the aircraft because … because … because … errrrr?
