Elephant and Castle I should hopefully still be joining them later on this year. But it is abundantly clear that easyJet simply cannot win with the whingers on pprune. Let's imagine a scenario whereby they decided to bin the rated people in the pool instead of the non rated. Only going to take self funded non rated people from now on. Would this satisfy everybody? Or would there be, as I very much suspect there would be, mass conspiracy theories left right and centre on pprune about how they were only taking these people so that they could ensure CTC millions of pounds in income through self funded type ratings? If they're all about the bottom dollar and in bed with CTC why wouldn't they do exactly that? There's always going to be accusations of a hidden agenda.
What happened was extremely unfortunate but I very much doubt they intentionally set out to deceive people and ultimately let them down.