"Thousands of foreigners are being allowed to work in high security parts of Britain's airports without passing proper criminal record checks, it was disclosed last night.
Despite warnings that terrorists would try to recruit people working "airside" in terminals – with direct access to aircraft and baggage – no attempt has been made to check whether foreign workers have committed any offences abroad.
The vetting process checks only for crimes committed in Britain. Foreign workers – arriving from inside or outside the European Union – are not checked in their country of origin."
So the sheer genius that is this Labour government implements security checks on all British workers but no such checks on foreign workers. Does anyone else think that employing non-security checked foreign workers "airside" at a major airport might be a dereliction of duty?
Hold on, our beloved Labour government has an excuse, and here it is in all its mealy-mouthed glory:
"The Government said that it did not want to carry out foreign criminal record checks because it would take too long and involve complicated comparisons between legal systems in different countries."It would take too long, too long to safeguard the security of hundreds of thousands of travellers; that's OK then, we wouldn't want to inconvenience foreign workers or BAA.
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