I was co opted onto the BST committee in February 2015 when I became the spokesperson for the Trust. I banged the NAPM drum from the very start, which can hardly be described as late in the day!
We were advised to be very careful how we approached the whole boycotting issue for all the legal reasons suggested previously and yes, we called it an "ethical boycott" for a while. We were all learning as we went along and if there was even the slightest chance that the Trust could have faced legal action by officially calling for people not to spend any money in any Oyston businesses, that would have been irresponsible on our part.
Every time I spoke about the financial strategy that was NAPM/ethical boycott, I was speaking for the Trust. There is no way anyone who was paying attention could have thought we didn't support it!
We did not ask members to vote against it, we simply made the facts known and made it clear that they must make up their own minds (which is the right thing to do)
As time went on and it became clear that we were not at risk, we dropped the ethical boycott bit and went full NAPM.
Again, many of my later interviews stressed how some people had started NAPM much earlier than the majority of us but how it had grown wings and taken off. BST have never claimed it as our idea but we drove it for all it was worth, along with every other supporter group that backed it, especially once the two year season ticket deal had ended.
It's one of the most unique and courageous things a football community has ever done. Let's not fall out, eh?