Kittenheals, I hope, (indeed I would pray if I thought it would do any good!) that your voice represents the "silent majority" of cabin crew at LHR. You have no-one but BASSA to represent you, and thus find yourself in a corner due to their undemocratic behaviour.
When the opportunity next comes to elect your reps, remember the contempt of the current incumbents for the opinion of the masses. Not once have they tried to sound out the view of the membership in a SECRET ballot, just relied on a highly intimidating show of hands, from a small minority of members, on a set of prepared (and mostly irrelevant) set of proposals.
I repeat. They have treated their members with CONTEMPT. They deserve the boot.