Not impressed by the security at Birmingham airport. We where there on Sunday night (20/05/2012) and the queues were unbelievable. It took about 40 minutes just to get to through security. I also observed the 'security manager' (or whatever their correct term is) let a number of security personal go on a break which slowed things down further.
Some of the staff were also really rude, unhelpful and were basically shouting at passengers if they went through the body scanner too early or forgot to remove liquids from their baggage.
I also observed on an old, very frail women be harassed by security personnel because she set of the body scanner. She was asked by security personnel to lift her foot up which she struggled to do. If that was my mother or grandmother i would be appalled by it.
Some common sense from security personnel would go a long way. Some of those security personnel don't know how easy they have got it.
Never experienced anything like it.