Got it from a senior trainer just the other day (and I quote)...
"We are in a position where there are not enough seats for the number of crews; unless there are sufficient voluntary redundancies it will be compulsary redundancies on last-in first-out basis". (Quite a contradiction to DE saying at the recent Business Plan announcement that he couldn't morally stand over compulsary redundancies while seconded pilots remained with BACX. That moral stance didn't last too long, did it?)
Furthermore, a very high number of crew will have 1 years pay protection followed swiftly by a pay cut of £13k on average.
To sum it up, it's a bag of sh1t, and we now realise that ex-CFE crews who told us to beware BA were 100% correct. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and GB pilots should watch their backs next. The dirty tricks campaign has allegedly already begun.