Put a (wind)sock in it

For fuck's sake, Unite, get a grip.  If an employer fails to abide by some "minor, minor technicality" you lot are on them like a ton of bricks, forcing talks, complaining bitterly to the press and ultimately threatening industrial action.  How then is it that when you manage to fuck up a strike ballot with just such a "minor, minor technicality" you somehow feel that you should be let off.

We've done everything humanly possible but a minor, minor technicality to stop a democratic vote and ultimately a democratic lawful strike by our people is what this is all about.

No, it's not you brain-dead fuckwit.  By not being remotely competent you forgot to follow the rules.  Thus the strike is not lawful, thus shut the fuck up.

It's about stopping an effective trade union being effective in support of their members.

An effective trade union would know that it's vital to follow the rules and get things right.  You are therefore not an effective trade union and need to, I reiterate, shut the fuck up.

Oh, and

I don't blame British Airways - the law is wrong.

is just admitting that you fucked up and didn't act according to the law.  Fucking imbeciles.

Go suck a dick, you incompetent bunch of cuntwipes.