I am also grateful to learn what is going on.
As another sheep, with no real active participation in the club for over a
decade, I am very concerned with apparent misbehaviour of MSCC officials. I
suspect it will inevitably happen when most of us stop paying attention.
Manfred
MSCC # 1844
1987 +8
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-morgans@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-morgans@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Jeremy Edwards
Sent: 30, August, 1999 23:31
To: toad
Cc: morgans@autox.team.net; Tony Oliver; bdowning@iwm.org.uk
Subject: Re: More about MSCC vs. Christine Healey
bdowning@iwm.org.uk
toad <toad@storm.ca> writes
>May I respectfully ask why this unpleasantness to both parties is being
>openly aired?
Firstly, I must apologise to all those who have no interest here and for
whom I am taking up unnecessary bandwidth.
My problem here in the UK is that the decisions of apparently a few club
officers have a much wider impact than they fondly imagined 18 months to
a year ago. The club is supposed to be democratic, driven by the NCM,
but in practise, most decisions are made by a smaller cabal, who
apparently are keeping all information to themselves, without consulting
the membership or keeping members informed of their actions.
Under normal circumstances I would not get too worked up about this, as
I don't have the time to act as a club official myself, so I would act
as the majority of the membership "sheep" and leave it to others. This
is different:
(i) The Club, as operated by Mrs Healey and Richard Lovatt,
guided by the Directors functioned prudently and
economically. Both have now gone at considerable direct
cost to the MSCC.
(ii) The MSCC enjoyed an excellent reputation for back office
administration, support for the classic car movement as
a whole, participation with decision making within the
RAC framework and as an active participant within the
FBHVC. This was reflected in the high opinion of the
Club's submissions to the DVLA, where people were
trying to get the original plate for a car or an age
related plate.
(iii) I have known some of the key players since 1991, when I
joined the club.
(iv) I am active in a number of other cars clubs, not-for-
profit organisations and charities, so I know how hard
it is to build such a reputation and how easy it is for
a few, normally well meaning, individuals to ruin
something for a long time.
I have tried to open a general dialogue on the legal issues within my
local group and Miscellany, but there has been no response, indeed, the
previous chairperson and editor have, so far as I can see, actively
damped down any discussion. The costs are now too great to ignore,
(GBP17000+GBP4000 already in the public domain), so I intend to be part
of a fuss at the AGM, but I will need others to understand what has been
done in their name, the consequences, both financial and otherwise and
conjure up from somewhere a NCM not tainted by a considerable "cock-up".
This is the only mass-media I have access to, as the other conventional
channels have been blocked. If anyone has a better idea, please let me
know.
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Jeremy Edwards
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