After my long weekend, I flew back to the UK. The experience was somewhat less stressful than the outward journey. Partly, it seems, because the French are nothing like as paranoid as their UK counterparts. No one took the slightest notice of my ink, no one asked me to remove my belt and apart from the obligatory “Merci, monsieur” when checking my passport, there was negligible interaction with security – a process that was over in a couple of minutes. A wholly more civilised experience.
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Yep. It’s the UK that’s got the major problem. I guess we should face it – there is now, if not before, a major flaw in the national psyche, if I may generalise. There’s just too many jumped up little Hitlers who get off on having a bit of power, and too many swooning sheeple who’ll do whatever they’re told by someone in authority.
.-= My last blog ..Ripping a baby from its mother’s breast: just an ordinary day for the eugenicist social workers =-.
There was a time when we would have applied that description to our European neighbours. Times have changed, it seems.
Not just the UK. As I found out yeterday US domestic is almost as bad as flying there. Passport control was a repeat of LHR but there wasn’t any hassle at the gate. I’ll find out what flying out of the country is like on Saturday…