Really can't see the problem with spotters assisting / doing the security. After all they will have had just as much training for the job as the current lot of job's worth's, and probably as much common sense.
Security checks, ID cards were really just a waste of time, so why not have all and sundry.
Be assured that Mr Shoesmith is not interested in doing an article as to why the people who have been in the industry for years, and are responsible, are peed off. No sensation there.
Could he possibly explain why removing my contact lense fluid from my flight case makes me safe to fly an aircraft with 60 odd tonnes of fuel on board over central London an hour or so later. No.
Not really Mr Shoesmiths problem, but when are those useless so and so's at BALPA going to get off there collective backsides and do something about it. Short and long answers... never. To politically sensitive to get involved with, might make the rise to an MEP a bit difficult.
Then better stop the membership me thinks, waste of money