Mac failed the first stage of a four stage process at Hamble.Many rejects followed the next obvious step by growing hair long & going to unheard of Universities in order to take three years off at Tax-payers expense & graduate (if that is the word) with unheard of, second class degrees (if they graduated at all) & take up jobs as bus drivers. We mustn't take his lament too seriously although we all know MP's are unable to make informed decisions because most of the time,they are NOT informed. They are also horrendously blinkered and easily pursuaded. Not the group to run an international airline but there we have it. They do so because they were given that power & GF will continue to suffer.
Of course their call to employ 100 unemployed, minimally qualified pilots to replace expats, just because the former are Bahrainis is daft. We can all see that, even MacDonald (doesn't he run a Farm ?) !But the MP's, who run at an agenda are open to lobby. Get Lobbying if that is your only route .
Get mean, get lean but keep the best human assets, irrespective of race.