UK bobbies to recover security costs from Airport Operators?

[QF WP]

UK police forces are to try to recover the costs of extra security prompted by terror alerts from airport operators...

 

[oz_mark]

Here was I thinking that policing is a government funded function that my taxes pay for.

 

[straitman]

Here was I thinking that policing is a government funded function that my taxes pay for.

How naive of you :!:

 

[oz_mark]

How naive of you :!:

With all this user pays stuff the governemnt gives us these days, I do wonder what my taxes do sometimes!

 

[straitman]

With all this user pays stuff the governemnt gives us these days, I do wonder what my taxes do sometimes!

Pay the Pollies wages, and not much else :!:

I'm tempted to post a link to the CASA web site. You would be amazed at the charges.

 

[NM]

With all this user pays stuff the governemnt gives us these days, I do wonder what my taxes do sometimes!

Funds the bureaucracy needed to administer all the user-pays schemes :evil: .