IMHO the BHA has become just another of many organisations that has become more concerned about maintaining it's power and influence and "being a player" than actually championing the issues that are important to those that it purports to represent (same reason i left BALPA - standing by to get flamed for that!)
Very sad, but hardly new.
I suggest that the industry would be better served by not bothering with them and arranging our own dinner once a year! (in fact - with what we save on membership fees we could go out twice a year!).
OH