Al R:
"On a contingency basis if nothing else, would you be prepared to say its a possibility thats not worth even considering?"
No. The BAFF Constitution is unique as the Memorandum and Articles of a British company, in expressly forbidding involvement in industrial action, disobedience, insubordination etc notwithstanding that such activities would be against service law anyway.
That's important. Industrial action within the armed forces IS against the law, and quite rightly so. Whatever you think of current UK politics, no major UK political party would wish to change that law.
The question remains: why on earth would BRITISH armed forces personnel want to involve themselves in industrial action, when the continentals have not?
Al R:
"And we're not The Danes, we're
us - one size doesn't fit all (as the EU is discovering)."
Well, obviously. Please dont lecture, when we do know what the Danish armed forces look like on operations, and we also know what their representative military associations look like. I hope that this from the BAFF website will be helpful:
"The
BAFF Constitution was drawn up in consultation with 50 personnel from all three services. A "
specifically British solution for the British armed forces", BAFF did not take any single organisation for a template, but its Steering Group researched or visited a wide range of organisations representing operational public service staff.
"These included representative military associations in Australia, the USA, and Ireland; the various Police Federations in the UK; and the GCHQ section of the PCS Union. BAFF itself is not a trade union."