'Controllers will, subject to workload, provide pilots with information concerning collision hazards to aircraft operating in Class C,D,E,F,or G airspace when self evident information from any source indicates that a risk of collision may exist. It is accepted that this information may be incomplete and the controller cannot assume responsibility for its issuance at all times or for its accuracy.'
Of course this was written in the pre privatisation days when atc manning was designed to cope with maximum traffic loadings.
Now that ATC staff numbers are minimised by contractual restraints , things aren't so easy.
Our priority is very much on our paying customers.
It's now a mean world out there and you guys are getting a "free lunch" both from the FIR controllers and Local Airfields.
Be grateful for what you get because once the Bean Counters get round to it , you'll end up paying.