That (the 200 fags and bottle for a fiver) is pretty well what will happen if we are voted out of the EU.
Obviously something that neither airport managers nor the DF operators want us to know, as for the smokers and drinkers who stock up on the way back from their jollies in another EU country this would be represent a significant increase in their cost of living. Ask my wife!!
That isn't "operation fear" that's "operation fact".
Returning to the subject - EMA is exactly the same, and you even get put through the nonsense when you're flying domestic. (Edinburgh is still domestic isn't it?).