doubleu-anker Were they caught totally unawares?, were they actively involved for hidden reasons?, or had they intel but turned a blind eye?. That is a different and maybe pointless debate, who knows?
Besides, all the reasons, previously started why trying to force an Airline pilot to have an ID card has no valid argument or basis other than control.
The goverment in the UK has a history of losing sensitve data.
In the past fews years there have been a few seperate occasions were highly sensitive data about individuals has been lost, left on trains on laptops, stolen etc.
I am convinced there is a lot more risk and danger to me and fellow pilots in these incompetent people holding every conceivable biometric and personal fact about you.
We are much less of a threat to them, than the goverment are to us.