So M.85, are you saying that you lot in the good old USA, which is supposedly calling the security shots for the entire globe, are carrying on with 'life as normal' as far as jumpseating is concerned - while we in most of Europe, and particularly the anally retentive British, have made jumpseat access virtually impossible to all but a. the cretins who made the regulations and b. the cretins who implement the regulations.
If what you have described is true, then BALPA needs to do some talking to Darling.