I have always despaired at the childish and ignorant posting mis-spelt nonsense here but that is the weakness of anonymous public websites.
To claim that Jim MacAuslan is in some way to blame for the withdrawal ignores the way the case developed. Jim took over from Chris Darke. He, in my opinion, was a very poor General Secretary.
Whatever ones personal feelings about Mervyn Granshaw I would be suprised, if he had still been in pace, if he hadn't fully endorsed the BACC's actions. The reason being that OpenLies represents a very great threat to the majority of pilots in Europe.
BALPA's loss in this battle is bad news for the long term Ts & Cs of pilots.
What is interesting is whether OpenLies can hope to become a success now given the massive and continuing hike in oil prices.