Whats more worrying is if they tried to privatise such a scheme - who would get it group 4 ?
Agree, although more likely to be outsourced to a foreign call centre.
There has been a strong argument for a while to rationalise security checks at airports to one standard, that is quick (unlike MANs tardis), easy and more secure than that which we already have. This would be a worthy aim.
Sadly Jofm5, the Goverment is not interested in this, and whatever their ulterior motive, based on its previous actions in all manner of things, being heard to say the right thing is more important than actually doing the right thing. Therefore proclaiming that issuing an id card will improve aviation security when in fact it will play no greater part in the security process than allowing people to be issued a CRB check is an expensive joke.
If the Government really wanted to take the aviation threat seriously, there are plenty of other things they could do.
The UK Government lost my trust and respect a long time ago and nothing they have done recently has given me cause to change my faith in them. They have £billions to throw at foreign wars of questionable legality, paying bankers bonuses and a whole host of white elephants, but they could never find the money to fund hospitals properly, or look after the old or do anything to improve society other than provide spectacular soundbites and spin could they?
I'm off to calm down before I get banished to jetblast.
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