Personally I take the view that it serves the purpose I want it to serve,
Hmm. IMHO a touch too safe and boring, but it's your site.
In the Board's shoes, on certain subjects I'd want to know the views of the membership and also, to some extent, the non-members.
If you really want the membership to tell you what they think of the organisation then confidential responses are essential - its what you do when you run a questionnaire, after all. And a confident Board would be able to ignore the sniping and look at the bigger picture.
Making a submission to the LAA board, or raising the matter at the LAA AGM is the correct procedure for dealing with such issues.
I disagree. There is too much recent evidence of decisions being rushed by the Board and then being consulted upon