Originally Posted by terenz
May it be because you are a citizen of a top tier E.U. member country and the immigration people have no business questioning you other than to verify your identity?
What is a top tier E.U. member country? Anyway, top tier or not doesn't make a difference.
But you are right of course, the Brits just have to let every EU citizen in and can only refuse entry if you are a convicted criminal or something like that. So they never ask any questions to EU citizens. Until recently they only glanced very briefly at my passport (I just continued walking with the photo page open), but recently they do a computer check via a scan of the passport.
Anyway, I was just responding to the poster who advised British readers to try passing UK immigration with a _non-British_ passport and see how different that experience would be compared to entering with a UK passport.