Just for the record, Mr Opik (a PPL/IR besides being a bit of a clown) followed Lord Carlile as MP for Montgomeryshire; so one would hope they have a good working relationship, both being Lib Dems.
As well as flying privately, I working in Business Aviation. I've yet to see Alex Carlile at Farnborough seeing for himself the steps and lengths we go to to ensure that we have the strictest possible security we can. It's not simply a case of a few yellow jackets on the gate, it's a series of steps involving everyone in the organisation, we have direct contact with all sorts of Government agencies for any kind of concerns and I'm, frankly, worried that the Government's Terrorism Tzar doesn't seem to know this.
Just from the fact he's written means he doesn't know it....