There certainly do seem to have been overt signs that the BASSA believers are beginning to notice some sense of futility in their 'efforts'. This thread used to rack up dozens of pages in a few days - now it takes weeks to do the same. The noisy cultists have certainly gone quiet! They haven't necessarily gone away, but they are certainly out of ideas, even weak ones.
Wirbelsturm raises a good point - BASSA are but a sideshow to the rhetoric now being raised by the TUC hardliners. I note that these orators all use the same excuse that public sector cuts will be "bad for our members and bad for the public". Of course it will be bad for the Labour-junket collective, but that is a festering wound that needs sorting. As for being bad for the public, I beg to differ - there will be losses of some public services (not all of them necessary services ....) but that, too, will stem the financial haemorrhaging instituted by 13 years of Labour profligacy.
These TUC protagonists have similar views to BASSA, "The rest of you can take pay cuts, but why the hell should we!" [Cue launching of teddy bears, to great heights, several of which burn up on re-entry ..... causing tears and further tantrums.]