2mile600feet,
For some reason an oft-quoted idiom regarding wrestling pigs in mud comes to mind.
I'm not even going to dignify your caustic post with a response. If you believe your colleagues at Heathrow Tower have as little understanding of wider ATC as you seem to think I have, then nothing I say is going to change your mind.
Speaking of wider ATC matters, have I ever met you at one of the Network Management meetings?