FlapsOne and Muzza,
Please don´t get me wrong. I´m not a freeloader and I fully support BALPA, and when I joined BALPA I did so on my own initiative because I felt it was the right thing to do. Apart from one (very) brief talk on the first days of type training, I never heard from BALPA and I had to push some colleagues/friends/fencesitters very hard to sign up. As Basic-T stated, I´m convinced that a lot of present and future BALPA support can be gained from the overseas bases which continue to grow at a very fast pace.
I am very split on the 5-2-5-4 issue but I wont go into details on this public forum. Nevertheless I really DO appreciate all the CC´s efforts who worked very hard at this!
Last but not least I wish we had an easyJet forum here on PPRuNe, which would allow a bit more privacy in discussing these issues.