Hello again.
A few people disagreeing heartily with my view that this is an absurd over-reaction. Fair enough. Let me ask this question.
Was any airport security breached today? Or yesterday? Or the day before that?
If there have been security breaches then I can understand the lock-down mentality.
But there haven't been.
So why the lock-down?
Do we suddenly think that, just because we find someone who was going to try something bad, all the security we have in place to prevent them achieving their aim is obsolete? Really? In that case, fire John Reid and Alastair Darling for presiding over such indequate processes.
There has been no security breach. There is not, therefore, as far as anyone has said, any reason to go into lock-down melt-down mode.
Ill-judged panic-fuelled over-reaction, in my opinion.
Anyone whom applauds this on a long term basis had better get ready to find another job. The public will stay at home.