I hope this crisis re-ignites the old divisions that were more manifest in the '80's but no less real today, despite the media's obfuscation. You only need to listen to the way BA bosses talk as opposed to their trade unionist counterparts to realise this is intertwined with class inequalities.

The media are doing their utmost to depoliticize this dispute and present it as a 'moral' problem, (the poor passengers whose lives will be disrupted for all of a few days) and not a political problem. The utter depoliticisation has the effect of obscuring the real issue which is that workers and bosses have different interests which don't co-incide. They don't like presenting this transparent dialectic as it will inevitably lead to people identifying with one side or the other.

Its very unlikely that passengers are 100% with BA managers this is typical press manipulation of public opinion.

What floating voters don't understand is that there are workers on one side and bosses on the other, and these aren't the same things.