Bokkenrijder
Just to reply to your two posts from a non british pilot/but working for an under crewed/pure CAP371 airline.
1) BALPA can only push forward CAP371 to the british government because that is the current accepted norm and it's all they can fight with. Unfortunately they can't say to government "Look we don't like these new proposals they're too lax so we want you to pick up the torch to fight against them. By the way the british standard that we've accepted for the last xx number of years is too lax too let's tighten them up even more" You can't expect an uniformed (as to FTL's) politician to fight our corner on that.
2) This is not a vote!! It's not the british public voting on an EASA proposal, it's a petition. If 100,000 residents of the UK or overseas UK citizens put their name to this petition (and i am a signatory, not british but UK resident) then this issue has to debated in parliament. Hopefully this petition will force UK politicians to fight against these proposals. This should hopefully have two effects.
a) ensure that the UK does not adopt these proposals (unfortunately each country in europe has to make up their own mind as to whether they adopt them)
b) That the UK tries to make the current EASA proposals significantly stricter that they are now for the benefit of all pilots and cabin crew in europe.
I dread the day that it is legal for my employer to give me 7h30 mins rest between duties because they have a fatigue management system. And they will because every other airline that is competing with my employer will do the same.
People will turn up to work tired because they need these jobs. These rules will kill people.
Look up Colgan Air flight 3407
Look up Corporate Airlines flight 5966