If what CHINOOKER has said is true then it makes me want to cry, and I have nothing to do with BA or the aviation industry. I just hold a British passport and enjoy old Ealing Studios type movies for nostalgia's sake.
That means I still smile at Peter Sellers in "I'm All Right Jack", and I still smile when I think of how it was when my father used to come home 40 years ago and tell us what a foul-up the new computer system had caused at his blue chip employer's premises , but frowned when he told us when he was most likely next to not be going to work because so and so and the shop stewards had called another strike ...
But now, in 2008, it just makes me want to weep for this country.
...I'll get my coat.
Would the last one leaving please turn out the lights.