Kirkwall, your statement that those at BHX have been unaffected by all the previous company change is untrue. A large percentage (if not a majority) of the people who are now based there have been shunted there from other bases which have shut/contracted, indeed many still commute to their former homes at great expense and stress.
BHX has probably got more disgruntled CX pilots than any other base on the network, all of whom are only too well aware of what base closures mean to themselves and their families.