Thanks, moderators, for reopening this thread. I had one more question, which
john_tullamarine has now answered with this statement:
If folk are honest .. I suspect that ALL would readily admit that, were the clock wound back with hindsight intact ... it would have been a very different dispute ..
And to my earlier question of what lessons have been learnt, perhaps this answer from
Captain Sherm is the most definitive:
Unity is strength…yet frail. Solidarity is the key….yet our weak point.