Well well well
Smack me round the head with a wet mackerel
Gerald
I am so very pleased to know that you are not, as was first suspected, Preston acting under a Nom de plume.
I also apologise for inadvertently snipping your surname by 1 letter, it's a symptom of fat finger disease and when coupled to a laptop keyboard can play havoc on ones normally perfect spelling. ( My grammar is crap though :dunno:)
As Lee has pointed out, Clive will most probably be answering your comments shortly, so I shall leave that particular area to him.
That said, as Lee has also pointed out the initial "tone" of your posts did appear to infer a more sinister side to your position regarding things.
As far as attending AGM's and such as has been previously stated, been there, done that and have the tee shirt. However as a nearly new member of the MVT you obviously have not ...........yet, I hasten to add, as I would imagine you might just be attending this coming one.
As John Carroll has stated forums are indeed a place of discussion be that good or bad, and as such comments made on this particular forum regarding the MVT have been the result of MVT members airing their views, finding similar occurences up and down the country, and finding different attitudes from varying area's of the MVT.
This has come about due to those particular members area's not being as "welcoming, amenable, friendly and supportive" as the particular area you happen to belong to.
Those of us that do voice a complaint here are not just from one area but are spread around the country, and it would appear that the complaints aired have a similar ring to them.
That said, the MVT in general is indeed a good club, It's not perfect, it is stuck in a time warp at times but all in all it tries to please as many people as it can. Sometimes fails at that but hey, so do many other clubs. So what you see as "knocking" the MVT is not really that at all, it is an active discussion in a forum enviroment to facilitate the betterment of the club by indentifying its deficency's.
It was due to the deficency's of our local area that a group of us went ahead and formed Essex Armour and Softskins MV Group which successfully put on a major show last year and are doing so again this year, as well as attending upwards of 20 smaller events and several larger ones under our own banner. But thats another matter.
It must say something however that in an MVT area that has some 250 members, less than 10% turn up at monthly meetings, of which EA&SS make up a third of those attending. Makes you think eh?
It would be good, as has been suggested, if you could perhaps join in other discussions on other threads that way you could also add to the very good work that is being done here.
Look forward to hearing from you
John
MVT Member 13666
IMPS Member 2715
101 club Member 1719
EMLRA Member (dammit where did I put that membership card )
Founder Member of EA&SS ( "I am a name not a number")