Well Widger, had there been an operations hiccup in the Air Traffic Control operation when it moved, there might have been smoking holes in the ground methinks. That notion concentrates even a poor management's mind.
Talking of Swanwick, how late and how much over budget was it, in the end - and what's that internal Swanwick squabbling all about that's spilled on to the ATC Issues board?
All these operations have been parasited for immediate profit, of course, one way or another. The managers and staff are pawns, the passengers are mere throughput. The operations themselves are just vehicles to the real people profiting, and I fear that to them it doesn't actually make much difference what state the vehicle is in after they jump out of it...