Yup, Stelzer is a right wing idealogue who makes Ghengis Khan look like a proverbial Sunday School teacher. He is also very selective in his use of facts. The creator of airline deregulation in the States is on record as saying that had he forseen the outcome, (the Lorenzo/Icahan years), he would not have reccomended it. Not a lot of people know that, so good old Irwin S just quotes the bits he likes to give his jaundiced views some bogus credibility.
I agree wholeheartedly with the email tactic: give the little chap something to think about. Regular readers of the Sunday Times business pages will know that he fires off the "lazy pilots are greedy and overpaid" broadside on a fairly regular basis. The irrational and personal tone he uses makes me think that he may have either not been selected or failed in flight training somewhere along the line.
Can't wait to see what he comes up with if BALPA make their move later this year.