There will be a large hole in the lives of some posters
Not for another 25 years if the NUM is any example.
This hanging-on-to-the-past can be a serious impairment.
_ It does make sense of the point in the letter that said that relations between Union and BA must improve.
_ I wonder if this means that the three year period before the restoration of privileges will be extended to five years, ten years, unless and until relations do improve.