Originally Posted by
BA850
Point missed. The Home Office can plan for and
mitigate any internal disruption which may arise. The point of a public sector strike is to cause maximum impact to the public in hopes of forcing politicians back to the negotiating table. This simply hasn’t happened.
Unless you have some evidence to suggest that people presenting at the border aren’t being assessed to the same standards, that’s a silly, straw-grasping comment.
Disruption is never simply internal. The more sticking plasters are applied, the more that other areas are (even more) under-resourced to cover the LHR border, the sooner that will manifest itself in a way which is obvious - even if it's not at the LHR border, which seems to be what the government is throwing all its resources at.
And I think it's fairly obvious that when you have someone from the military, or another role, with very limited training and experience manning the border, they will understandably not be operating at the same level of expertise in, for example, spotting the signs of trafficking or abduction, as someone who is trained and experienced in the role.