I wonder whether I should admire this guy (or gal's) courage at finally deciding to take the stance which they have.
Call me a coward, or whatever term you feel appropriate, but I still go to work and do my job as professionally as I can and to the best of my ability, that includes making sure all the square pegs fit into round holes. If I took the stance of this postee and something went wrong as a result, I'd feel I'd contributed more than my fair share to the incident occuring.
I do not work for NATS, but a regional airfield employer, and at this time we are being treated with the same contempt which NATS employees are.
Frankly, I'd find it very difficult to do the job strictly by the book, I've never worked that way and probably never will, if I see something amiss or go wrong, I'm far more likely to get it rectified than ignore it. This doesn't make me any better than the rest, or entitle me to hero status, it's just the way I work.