"Dft National Security Plan"
DfT National Socialist Plan, more like.
"Befehl ist Befehl!"
Just back from 8 trips areound Europe with LH. Only the UK has such absurd rules, travel between Schengen countries is so much simpler. Madrid-Frankfurt-Bremen required the sort of check we used to have before the 'liquid explosives' nonsense...and that was it. Just gate-to-gate at Frankfurt, no additional sicherheitsdienst groping.
Whereas Birmingham-Frankfurt-Bremen requires belt, shoes, watch, computer etc etc to be removed at BHX.... At FRA you are 'non-Schengen Untermensch. Verdammte Ausländer!' - so it's on to the bus (I hate to think where they learned how to pack so many people into those damn buses) and a magical mystery tour of the nether regions of the airport. Then up an escalator, through passport control, down another escalator, through another security check, down in a lift, along the time tunnel, up in another lift......
If only we had basic national identity cards (not the excessive things Trust-me-Tone wants us to pay £100 for.....) and were part of the Schengen community, we wouldn't have all this nonsense.
Let's have intelligent profiling and some realistic security checks!