So will we actually notice they are on strike if they do this when they are working??

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-Heathrow.html

I hope they are all back at work when I land at LHR on friday evening.

 

Those poor Somalians sound like they need some compo.

 

At the very least housing and full benefits and all the NHS has to offer + schools for the 37 kids in each family who do not speak a word of Eeeeengleeeesssshhh to make them feel at home!

 

Indeed. there is a severe shortage of Somalian criminals on the streets of London and as a minority they seem ethnically underrepresented.

 

burglary rates in london are up this year!

 

to be fair the uk ba are in my opinion
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a bunch of useless tw*ts.

 

Would you believe the UKBA holds an awards ceremony each year, i know this because i helped pitch for the work when i worked in events. Budget in 2008/9 was c.100K and to be held and the Natural History Museum in London.

Money better spent enforcing our borders methinks...

 

I don't think I've seen one in the Customs Hall for about 6 years!!

 

camoscoobys the man to ask

 

makes my blood boil but kind of doesnt surprise me... I'll keep my tax money this year and we can cancell this years ceremony.....

 

it's Sean Connery you idiots

 

We are the knights who say nie and we want a shubbery

 

Im not sure they could get legal aid now

this would hamper their pleading with European court human 'rights'


Somebody the girlfriend shared with ( no choice ) was into shoplifting/obtaining cards in other people names ( all learnt in S.A. ) - hasnt been deported back to zim at the last count

 

My new passport can go through the scanner. It's awesome!

I've got two valid passports actually but the other one is analogue.

 

I could entertain this thread by compiling a detailed post about the UKBA and the work I do but to be honest, you all clearly know more than I do so why bother?

 

oh go on tell us how hard it is to stand around at Dover with your arms folded waving cars through, or how hard it is sitting at an airport scanning passports as slowely as humany possible through a reader and looking suspiciouly at the owner. I am sure it would be a riveting read

 

To be honest the UKBA are much more efficient at processing you through PP control than most 3rd world places.

But there are normally less of them on duty! At Manchester airport late at night you might have 2 or 3 planes worth of people queuing and about 3 officers! LOL.

Thank God for the scannable passports.

 

Very short sighted.

How are you to know that a person like this is (and it does happen) permitted to enter in order to be followed and monitored resulting in more opportunities/intelligence/arrests which would not have been available if they had been refused at the border?

Nice

Good one

 

How do we know he is not a Martian?

 

You sir, are an idiot.

You have just included a link in your first post complaining how undesirable people are just permitted to 'walk through' the passport control and now you are complaining that we are 'scanning passports as slowely as humany possible through a reader and looking suspiciouly at the owner.'

Exactly what is it you would like us to do? So I guess its not important to check the owner of the passport is the same person standing in front of you? The computers/scanners are a tool, nothing else and does not make an officers skills/experience and intuition obsolete.

As above re: scannable passports

Also, its the government not the UKBA that are responsible for empty desks at passport control

 

Like this you mean

 

The question is not worth answering as you are obviously to thick to understand the answer.

we want you to stop letting banned criminals into the country, you have checked his passport so you know who he is you have stared him in the face so you know who he is, your swanky scanner connected to a database has told you who he is and that he is banned from entering the country so WTF let him in ??

 

Sorry my bad, you clearly know what you are talking about

I am prohibited from saying too much because of the Secret's Act, however if there was a valid/legal reason this man is banned from entering the country and the officials in question had received confirmation to this effect via 'our swanky scanner', he would have been.

It's the red tape and controversial laws such as the afforementioned Human Rights Act that allow things like that mentioned in this newspaper article to happen. The officers are only acting within the constraints of the law, decreed by our government and blame cannot/should not be attributed to the UKBA.

Stop acting like a plank unless you know what you are talking about.

 

I suspect the point being made Camoscooby is, what is the point of the UKBA - what is their role, if the law prevents them from doing what is needed?

 

Heathrow running well today, despite 75% of UK BA staff not showing up for work.

75% overstaffed maybe?

 

Exactamondo!

 

At what cost though? That is yet to be seen

 

I was kind of hoping you'd have the answer