Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…
Obviously a quote from Winston Churchill quoting a predecessor during a Commons speech. The problem with the apparent apathy, in my humble opinion, was that there were simply too many motions put too soon after the vote on the TA. The membership was suffering from ballot fatigue (as opposed to battle fatigue) and the last thing needed, again in my humble opinion, was a barrage of motions proposed by those who felt that wholesale change was needed to correct what they perceived to be failings in policy, procedures and/or representation by the GC.
The democratic process has taken place twice of late; first, the overwhelming turnout against TA18; second the underwhelming turnout for the member motions. This should speak volumes to all of us and perhaps the actions by those proposing and seconding member motions were seen as being just as divisive to unity as the overwhelming rejection of TA18 was seen, for a short time at least, as a reflection of actual unity?
For better or worse, the HKAOA is a democratic body and with that, we should consider the following: you can please some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time but you'll never please all of the people all of the time.
Now, where did I leave that soap box?
STP