Barden, no one is "taken in" by fact.
All you have to do to see what your union subs are spent on is to look at the
accounts: it is quite clear that more is spent on lunch, dinner and swanning around than providing legal assistance to the membership.
The pro BALPA contigent cannot or will not provide valid arguments to justify the stance taken, for example, on the easyjet cadets - with 20% easyjet representation on the NEC and the BALPA Chairman an easyjet Captain, which is being done to death in another thread, nor can they provide any answers to market forces or support when your company contracts. Again done to death on other threads.
What you have is a entity that needs your money to survive but does little to provide value for that money: strident birdcalls of "the pilots in your company are BALPA, BALPA is the the pilots in your company" etc etc don't wash anymore. We can all
think for ourselves and see that you are getting zero value for your tax deductible subscription.