Thank you guys. With brow beating non-members you are sure to encourage more members or may be open letters to retiring Captains is an example of how childish the meetings must be in orange land.
I was a founding member of easyJet BALPA when many of you were not in easyJet. It was worse then but has been very muchbetter. I sat at a meeting in Luton and seven other people showed up only one of the current CC were present. We requested direct action and the BALPA rep wanted to wait, hence the deal was weak.
In spite of the above I will lend my support and have emailed my application to BALPA in a vain hope to get a bigger stick.
For those of you outside BALPA join for yourselves not because of the wasted negative energy that some members throw at you.