I don't belive that Miss M is Ms Malone, but on the basis of what he/she has said previously, IIRC:
- joined as CC straight from school, over 10 years ago, and saw BA as a "career" for life
- benefits from being on a part time contract
- can afford the expense and time of commuting from Dover to LHR
Attempting not to be patronising, I feel this points to a person whose only work-life experience began at an impressionable age, being inculcated into the BASSA parallel universe, and has never experienced anything else. The influence of that BASSA universe has been strengthened over the years by the inablity (for whatever reasons) of management to assert the influence of everybody else's earth-bound values, ethics, "normal" work environment etc within IFCE. Miss M is definitely more able to express the virtual reality of BASSA world better than many of his/her colleagues who live in the same world.
Unfortunately, for this dispute, there still seems to be too many who live in that world. They are not necessarily evil, ill-motivated or whatever description you might choose. They just cannot see that there is a different world that the majority of non BASSAmentalists actually live in.