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What they should do is strike and hold a picket at Monaco. So when they should be preparing to race what they'll actually be doing is standing on Bernie's silly little nation anthem carpet with placards saying "This stinks, sort it out now else we're not racing".
Nevvvvaaa gonna happen. It's OK hiding behind the cloak of the GPDA, but as soon as faces are shown (I'm thinking Hamilton, Button, Rosberg etc) holding placards, it's a different and very public matter and they'd squirm away under Bernies thumb* (I think Vettel and possibly Alonso would be the more vocal ones who would be quite happy to state where they stand). At the moment it's a mere statement, which will be forgotten by Shanghai and will continue to be until the next cock-up brings it up again.
Relinquishing the decisions to the current required unanimous team agreements is one of the worst things to happen to F1, as there's lots of good intent but the end result of everything is either a terrible neutered compromise or an unmitigated disaster.
It only just struck me today, but F1 is desperately missing Webber's frank opinions on matters such as this. I'd go as far as to say that the Bahrain qualifying would be back to the 2015 rules if Webber was still in F1.
* I do wonder how much of this is Bernie playing political games trying to wrestle back some of the significant authority he's lost.