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Fair enough not agreeing with something, it's a democracy.
I hope you're right, and I hope Charlie Pop takes the opportunity to post his/her thoughts on the BALPA forum - assuming he/she is a member of course.
IMHO possibly the only silver lining I can find in this apparent debacle is that elsewhere we've got a sometimes heated but civilised, vaguely rational debate going on, and above all it's one that is most definitely not being controlled or censored by senior association reps.