@250kts,
Exactly the point I was making earlier when I was told by 'lookingforajob' that we should be careful about "waving the safety flag"! I think there is genuine safety concern with this one, whether or not it is 'just a gut feeling or not'.
I would not be happy at my unit doing radar in the tower ( out to 40nm ), providing an aerodrome control service and doing met observations at the same time in LVP conditions with holding traffic. Obviously the met would get neglected, resulting in calls from the met office!
The whole point of this is 100% a money saving exercise. For ATCO's it means working in a more stressful environment where the swiss cheese holes will line up faster. And for management/bean counters and others who get large bonuses for reducing overheads it means in the long term less staff.
It used to be Safe, Orderly and Expeditious. I'd prefer to keep it that way!!