Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
They could get some of that staff back by transferring the customs agents scrutinizing Eurostar passengers at St Pancras supposedly entering from a common market country. Suppose they would require years of cross-training first, alas.
Hmm... there ought to be no difference in the "scrutiny" given to people entering from an EU country compared with those entering from any other part of the world, since the UK is not in the Schengen area and all passengers arriving from outside the Common Travel Area (i.e. the UK, the crown dependencies of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the Republic of Ireland) are subject to passport control... Another example of things not working quite as they ought to be, perhaps?