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Re: CCBN Elections (or the lack of them)

rebustion <rebust...@googlemail.com>

On 29 June, 07:20, "Duncan Heenan" <duncanhee...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> Nominations for office have been circulated in the latest BN magazine. There
> are no contested offices and there are no nominations at all for Vice
> Chairman, Treasurer, International Officer, Youth Officer , KSER Rep, or
> Research & Liaison Officer (last time there was no candidate for PRO and the
> post has been vacant for many years now).

> A thread discussion this lack of volunteers willing to be on the EC has been
> running on the BN Members Forum, and is becoming increasingly vitriolic. It
> seeks the answer as to why members are so unwilling to volunteer.

> I think it might be helpful to raise the issue here to see what is said by
> non-members, ex-members and even members who wish to add their comments in
> an unregulated environment.

> Over to you, people.

> --
> Duncan Heenan

I think the answer is pretty self evident. There is no chance
whatsoever of dislodging the Jurassic Park element on the EC and
getting some kind of modern business oriented thinking into the
organisation (you’ve already proved that).
Membership is falling, and with it revenue, because the organisation
simply does nothing for individual members and is unable to tell them
the truth about what it’s really doing anyway. Since it remains an
unincorporated body the EC are jointly and severally liable for its
debts – who in their right mind is going to put their name forward for
this sure fire route to personal bankruptcy?

I’m an ex-member who got out when I saw the organisation in its true
light, and I’m very glad I did. The lack of nominations for no less
than seven EC positions is simply another indication of CCBN’s
inexorable slide into obscurity and dissolution.

I’m a bit surprised that the debate in the Members Forum is getting
vitriolic. When I was a member I always found that forum was moderated
almost out of existence so as to preserve the cosy false notion of
shiny happy people and one great fellowship of naturists, ideas which
the cold truth would very quickly puncture.