"Given the associated heartache, loss of earnings, threats to career progression from management etc etc I don't think they'd get 51% in any company BALPA are recognised in"
Then you all deserve what you are getting.
Pour yourselves a large glass of man-the-xxxx-up and stop whingeing, or mobilise yourselves enough to persuade everybody that it is in everybody's interest in the long term to defeat P 2 F
Also, if BALPA can't manage to stop something as plainly wrong as P 2 F, a deal twice as bad a slavery- at least slaves were fed by the owner- then why on earth would you join?!?!?