BA have effectively ended my and many other's careers by walking away from a five year contract after two years without any notice and exporting British jobs to the Middle East. The flying staff had nothing to do with it, no matter how some may be rejoicing.
Your tone and attitude represents everything I hate about this rotten, up itself and ego infested business. You are a tiresome bore. Go away and have a nice life being utterly superior to everyone else.
One day my arrogant friend this might happen to you. Long haul is now starting to follow the low cost route with the arrival of Norwegian and once it does, every other operator will either follow suit or go out of business. See where your 100K job goes then and see just how effective BALPA are at fighting it, about as effective as they were at stopping PTF I should imagine.