CapedCrewsAider, I do not wish to be confrontational here and turn this into a slanging match. Just consider how you would feel, though, if GB started to franchise out their routes to an airline that in general paid its pilots the same with the pretext that GB could not profit on those routes.
With regard to your comments on BALPA, there is much dissatisfaction at BA at the moment in this regard. Just imagine the consequences elsewhere in UK aviation if the BA pilots (approx. half the membership) went elsewhere and joined a union looking after only their interests as opposed to the general interest. This may yet happen.