“I think a lot of the public have lost support there otherwise would have been for the workers, it’s also lost support of other colleagues in BA.
“The colleague were on about the democratic vote and the reality is that there’s more people in BA than are cabin crew and some of those are outraged by some of the things that are being said in the name of good people in Bassa by some of the Bassa committee.
“So for example, putting a statement out that they badly maintain aircraft – and all the engineers who maintain those aircraft are members of our union – who are absolutely outraged.
“At lashing out at BA they’ve actually lashed out at our members. When I make those points, some people who think this dispute is a good fun, makes column inches in ultra-left wing press like to start arguing, they’ve now got some clown, I’ll name that one, running round BA on the Bassa website starting a petition to get me suspended for the comments misreported by the SWP.
Wow! Shows how much BASSA and Unite think of each other. As Litebulbs said earlier, maybe a new name is needed
British Airways: Derek Simpson responds to Socialist Worker|17Apr10|Socialist Worker