Quite so - Refusal to allow flight crew to carry on bags will not work; My bag contains things I actually need, including a phone and a laptop. There has to be a distinction between the crew and passengers at security checks, and if they cant take it from our ID passes that we are the pilots that we say we are, then they shouldn't be letting us through at all.
Kudos to the UK security services for preventing murderers from taking many lives, and from severely damaging the airline industry.