You obviously do not know the meaning of the word "resign", which means to give up an office or position voluntarily. The Airbus Captain had to withdraw from his position as a rep, because his conduct was incompatible with BALPA's neutral position. To prove the point, he actually flew as a VCC to Boston. I hope this is clear.
Once again with the insults Duggie, it only demeans you and weakens your arguments. I know full well the meaning of resign, and he did not have to resign which is different to withdrawing from his position as a rep. Also if his position is untennable why has he been re-elected after the whole sorry story has been debated ad nauseum on the BALPA forum so that all the membership know the story. Knowing that story they re-elected the gentleman. The resignation was over a different point of principle, that of rules being created then applied retrospectively. That he flew to Boston as VCC is irrelevant.
You accuse many of BALPAs members of being hypocrits but provide no evidence of such, once again the actions of the VCCs are individual actions and as such are not condoned by BALPA. So BALPA act to protect pilot T&C's, which is their remit while saying nothing about the nonsense behaviour of BASSA that is slowly and effectively hurting it's own members T&C's. But enough of this about BALPA and pilots, this thread is about BA vs BASSA.
As to the rest of the argument - perhaps if you tried fact rather than emotional arguments that do not hold up when examined you may get more sympathy. As to whether or not the pay and T&C's will be enough, the market will decide. If BA cannot crew their flights the money will have to go up. If, on the other hand people jump at the chance, like they do for the other airlines in the UK, then the pay will stay where it is.