By the way, UK ATC phraseology is the absolute worst and most dangerous in Europe, with their non standard wordings.
I'm all for an even debate but c'mon, really? Most people regard UK ATC as being pretty good, if not the best around, and an incident of this nature is highly unlikely to happen at somewhere like LGW.
I've flown into BCN on a number of occasions and APP always seems stretched to the max and late landing clearance (100' on one occasion) is not unusual because of chaotic handovers.