The bottom line is that SMB and his merry men kept me in work from September 1970 through to February 2002. The pay was always there and on time, through thick and thin.
The bottom line is, the pension you're currently drawing is from a scheme that is $70m (give or take a million) in the red, run by a company about to be minced up and sold as frankfurters. 1970 to 2002 might have been OK for cosy "I'm all right Jack" little you, but I wouldn't bet on 2010 onwards being the same.
The bmi workforce, in jobs or retired, are about to pay big time for the incompetence, greed and selfishness of the rats currently scurrying off the ship.