How right you are magicmorris!
The only country applying the full rules is the UK; yet the EU now proudly proclaims that the rules will be relaxed across the EU from 2012. But they already are except for the UK?
Have the 'rules' prevented any 'occurrence' on a flight departing from the UK? We will never know, but I would have expected some organisation to have carried out some act elsewhere in the world if their security systems were so inadequate as the stringent regulations in the UK suggest they must be.
The last time I posted a thread on this subject it was rapidly removed, so I suggest you copy this one now!