Originally Posted by
Bohinjska Bistrica
The proportion of UK passports being added into the queues in the EU is much less than the proportion of passengers that would be added to queues in the UK from removing eGates access to EU passports. Remove the US and other passports too and the situation would fast become intolerable.
There is no point making things worse out of spite here to make a point. As I said, UK passport holders would suffer as a result of this as well.
I know its a pointless argument as nothing will change, but why would removing UK e-gate access for European passport holders mean that "UK passport holders would suffer as a result"?
Yes, queues at the desks for non-UK passport holders would be awful, but the queues at the UK e-gates for UK passport holders would be much reduced as only UK passport holders would be allowed to use them.
So, if you are a European passport holder, getting through the UK border without e-gate access would take an hour or more - just as long as it now takes a UK citizen to get through a European border.
In my view, the only countries that should be allowed to use the UK e-gates are UK passport holders and passport holders of countries that allow UK passport holders to use their e-gates (Australia and the UAE come to mind).