The keep voting for a strike the Law keeps over ruling them on a technicality – this time it appears to be the failure of the union Unite to inform its members of the 12 or was it 11 spoilt ballot papers – so it’s off to appeal and then no doubt another ballot – the law’s no friend of workers.

Still I wonder how much money BA has spent on lawyers – probably enough to solve the dispute – the last I heard agreement had be reached all that was left was re-instatement of travel privileges for strikers – which seems very small beer in the scheme of BA’s troubles.

The only winners here are going to be lawyers and barristers as they collect their huge fees.