Just nine passengers detained at Heathrow during Border Force strike
Figure compares with 189 during same three days of 2021, but detentions at Manchester airport rose slightly
That’s an interesting change, isn’t it?
Just nine passengers detained at Heathrow during Border Force strike
Figure compares with 189 during same three days of 2021, but detentions at Manchester airport rose slightly
That’s an interesting change, isn’t it?
The Wrong kind of immigrants.
The Channel’s been a bit choppy lately so the usual influx the Graun approves of is backed up a bit.
UK border force (lol) is largely passive aggressive brown women and dopey fat white guys being pointlessly annoying to Yank tourists and the like. It’s all Theatre du Bullshit and has nothing to do with enforcing immigration laws, which we don’t.
Checking visas, ID etc has all been farmed out to the airlines so what those prats at Heathrow do is a bit of a mystery.
It’s theatre and aimed at travelling Brits.
Immigration Is a problem and something must be done, so they put people in important looking Jobsworth’s uniforms and then MPs can point and say they’ve done something.
I go along with Steve in singling out that they are extremely aggressive and rude to visitors from the USA. Why should that be so?
“rude to visitors from the USA. Why should that be so?”
Because US border guards are all hispanic and treat Brits in the same way. Although it isn’t as bad as it used to be.
“Figure compares with 189 during same three days of 2021” How many of the 189 were subsequently found to have done anything wrong? About nine, maybe?
So just in three specific days. Which might not marry up with a weekend? Or some other event. And 189 over three days in how many tens of thousands if not hundreds that passed through the airport in those same three days?
9 vs 189 detained. I wonder what percentage of these were subsequently found to be doing something illegal vs just suspected and then let free with an apology for the mistake.
“Checking visas, ID etc has all been farmed out to the airlines so what those prats at Heathrow do is a bit of a mystery.”
All of that paperwork isn’t going to collate and file itself.