Porco,
I am sorry if I mislead you, I was being sarcastic. The point I was trying to make is that nats has existing staff who are familiar with ATC and its environs and are a known "quantity" and are highly qualified who they potentially intend to make redundant. One the other hand they are recruiting external candidates most of whom have no experience and some of whom their motives are suspect (in it for the pay cheque). It is utter nonsense!