Fair enough comment Dodgy. I am an aquaintance of HO, yes. But with all my Prune posts (apart from the s-stirring ones
, I argue the case at hand; I don't push any particular barrow just for the ideological sake of it, as is happening with other input on this issue IMO. If I didn't think the issues that I have mentioned above had any merit, I would not have posted what I did, regardless of who the person was. I would ask you therefore to treat my opening post in that light rather than "he's a mate of ... so he must be FOS".
Being an aquaintance of HO has shown me that the MBF and it's member's potential payouts are currently in the safest hands that they have ever been. Any move to return to the "good old days" would be counter productive and has to be treated with great suspicion. Contrary to the claim of "breaking with tradition", there will always be AFAP members running the MBF as trustees and a paper ballot system in this day and age is morally mandatory.