BALPA has asked their BA pilots to reduce their pay by up to £200 per week to avoid redundancies
This makes it sound like the BA pilots have no say in things and that Balpa is some third party entity that controls what goes on. Balpa is made up of the pilot membership and it is they who control what goes on (ask Chris Darke!). Any deal put to the BA pilots will have been worked out through the BA CC and not some Balpa employee trying to balance the budget.
LHC, up to the bit of tosh:
There is, of course, a rather more sinister force at work, when addressing the perplexing question of just why it is that Ryanair attracts such negative attention here. There exists deep within the collective psyche of the British, a deep and abiding resentment of any Irish success.
you did actually make some valid points which would serve you better in a reasoned argument rather than sinking to this level. That seems to be your main hindrance in that you can start off so well and so quite sensible but then oh dear the impulse strikes to either rubbish someone else or accuse an entire nation of hating the Irish. I know it can be tiring trying to fend off the inevitable encroachment of democracy into your world but stick to the reasoned arguments (not the 1% of £100k stuff either!) and more people might listen to the end.