Well said, tuc and flip!
What we have here is an MAA that is built on sand. We repeatedly hear that its foundations are set in the Haddon-Cave Nimrod Report, but that was deeply flawed as we have since learnt. By taking the Report as its gospel, the MAA is preaching a false doctrine. That may work in the ecclesiastical sense but it can't work in Aviation. People have died already and more will die unless and until it speaks the truth, that Haddon-Cave's Golden Period of Airworthiness was anything but and culminated in the issuing of an illegal Release to Service to a knowingly Grossly Unairworthy aircraft type. 29 people died in one within months.
With all due respect for Vin Rouge, and indeed for all who are now serving, I must respectfully disagree with your sentiments. Of course people are disheartened, clinging on, hoping for the best. The same could be said for the people of the newly occupied nations of Europe under the Naziis in WWII. Some though knew what to do and at great personal risk joined the resistance. They did what was right. This conference gives that same opportunity, as flip says. The liberation of Flight Safety that would follow the removal of the MAA and the MAAIB from the thrall of the MOD is an outcome that will save lives and is well worth the fight.