Hand Solo - SPOT ON! Your post accurately describes what we are dealing with - BA PILOTS CANNOT TRUST A SINGLE WORD THE COMPANY SAY. They have lied before (Manch and Birm) and did not even look contrite.
The opportunity to cheat the pilots out of their financial futures must seem irresistable to 'The Lord Protector', 'The Prince of Darkness' and the big cheese himself, 'The Leprachaun', pilot-haters to a man. Its not going to work. The line in the sand is there.