I have made my opinion very clear on the other forum.
They choose (are instructed) to provide a DS to all their inbounds, by default.
Providing a DS is hard, so they complain that they need CAS.
Because they can’t get CAS, their primary method of resolution has become to “control” the light GA, in the guise of “coordination “.
They use the LARS West position to achieve this.
The West ATCOs are overloaded and have (mostly) insufficient capacity to provide higher levels of service than Basic to light GA, particularly at the times when higher services would be desirable.
The solution is clearly to remove step 1 from this process but TAG won’t let them.
Watch the video from the Flying Reporter’s visit to Farnborough and see the manager squirm when questioned about this.
Filed another MOR last week. Clear skies, night, hardly anything up there, yet I was *summoned*, from another frequency to West. Upon initial call, attempted to impose a service (declined) for “coordination”. Just me and the jet up there, yet with the whole region available to apply the DS to the aircraft in receipt of it, or downgrade him to TS, primary resolution was *still* to control the light GA.