An extract from BASSAs official report of todays meeting:
REPORT BACK FROM TODAY’S BRANCH
Feb 25th, 2010 by admin
At another Branch meeting at Kempton Park, with over 1000 in attendance, there was an upbeat mood in the light of yet another marvellous ballot result. Indeed, it was said that this result was probably more satisfying as the “Yes” vote last time probably had a gung-ho protest element to it, whereas on this occasion, 81% were still prepared to take action, despite the bullying and intimidation.
The feeling from the floor was that Willie Walsh was now completely out of control and his personalisation of this dispute was making any “deal” that much harder to achieve.
I suspect that much has been revealed about the BASSA reps mindset in the above quote. Substitute 'BASSA reps' for 'Willie Walsh'. I don't recall Walsh focussing on the BASSA reps at any stage of the negotiations, whereas BASSA have insist on making the entire debate about Walsh whilst ignoring the prevailing economic conditions. Barking mad.