As usual, good post NSF.
To me its a case of "throwing out the baby with the bathwater".
If the IPF could give a better service, it'd be the first time in the history of mankind that the rule "you get what you pay for" will have been violated.
Why not the detractors step up to the plate on a replacement or even a secondment basis to assist their fellow colleagues in a fight to maintain T&C's, disseminate information, mobilise troops...
All the time taking their extra days off, their additional leave, their additonal payments, forgetting about the jobs saved etc etc.
Would it be surprising to suggest that we all have vested interests one way or the other?