On a note more serious than my last piece of nonsense, I have to agree with the last two posts.
Sadly, the days of Britain being "air minded" died with Sir Sefton Brancker. Since the war there has been a succession of governmental administrations keen to deter anything that might be construed as a๋rial initiative. That they have been most effective in this pursuit is evinced by the pitiful state of what remains of the British light aircraft industry and the imposition of super-restrictive control of domestic airspace. Of course, all these administrations have been wined and dined by Big Air and others who would like to see GA disappear altogether.
For as long as the GA (and in that category I would include all non-transport stuff) interests remain seemingly adversarial, fragmented and un-coordinated, there can be no reasonable expectation of reversing this pernicious tide. Our interests should be presented to the outside world by one body and that world should perceive this body as being the accepted corpus of GA interests. Division guarantees only failure. Obviously, many sectarian interests would be represented under this umbrella but that is a different subject and not germane to the public/political perception of GA.
This lack of cohesion gives rise to such aberrations as the tree-huggers recently reported to be laying siege to Biggin Hill.
GQ.
PS All this has caused me to wonder about the current circumstances of my old chum John Blake and the BLAC . . . .?