21-11-2019, 02:30 PM
Alan,
I appreciate thats how you see things but there is a much bigger picture to all of this. We all want subs never to go up, a bit like we dont like taxes to go up. However we must face up to the reality of the situation. I am not an apologist for MSUK nor do I have any direct involvement other than being a licence holder just like you. For a veriery of reasons I recently did make it my business to be better informed re the changes taking place and as it happens I did meet with Hugh Chambers which reafirmed my own thoughts on what was planned was the correct way forward.
No one ever said motorsport was cheap in any form. Most grass roots events rely on clubs and volunteers. The demographics cleary show we will run out of volunteers unless we get youngsters in to replace them. For many grass roots events, trials, sprints, hill climbs, its the same story, very little uptake from youngsters. If we want to expand the sport we need to be higher profile, expanding the sport helps with volunteer recruitment. That also means training input, etc. etc.
This all costs money.
I for one am happy to support their plans as I know from my own experience that if you don't invest in the future you are in serious danger of not having one. Then what would we have to say? Something like 'a blind man with a glass eye in his ar$e could see they should have been more forward thinking' or even more prophane!!!
It seems that till people no longer have it they only realise what they have lost.
Paul N-M
I appreciate thats how you see things but there is a much bigger picture to all of this. We all want subs never to go up, a bit like we dont like taxes to go up. However we must face up to the reality of the situation. I am not an apologist for MSUK nor do I have any direct involvement other than being a licence holder just like you. For a veriery of reasons I recently did make it my business to be better informed re the changes taking place and as it happens I did meet with Hugh Chambers which reafirmed my own thoughts on what was planned was the correct way forward.
No one ever said motorsport was cheap in any form. Most grass roots events rely on clubs and volunteers. The demographics cleary show we will run out of volunteers unless we get youngsters in to replace them. For many grass roots events, trials, sprints, hill climbs, its the same story, very little uptake from youngsters. If we want to expand the sport we need to be higher profile, expanding the sport helps with volunteer recruitment. That also means training input, etc. etc.
This all costs money.
I for one am happy to support their plans as I know from my own experience that if you don't invest in the future you are in serious danger of not having one. Then what would we have to say? Something like 'a blind man with a glass eye in his ar$e could see they should have been more forward thinking' or even more prophane!!!
It seems that till people no longer have it they only realise what they have lost.
Paul N-M