Malcolm,
I do understand your point of view. For my part, I will alternate between the two each successive year, last year it was the GTD so this year I have joined the Enthusiasts camp. It may be that you, the GTD club might / would not have me back again next year doing this.
To be frank, I don't get to any events and scracely meet anybody in either club except going for a drink at the Fairmile or Bullington Cross. Everything happens in the summer and I'm in TCB mode from April to October. (TCB?: Taking Care of Business) I'm sure the magazines are great to anybody who attends the various events and so on
but I scarcely have time to read them. I appreciate there is sometimes good technical editorial but once again time is precious.
I don't have a problem about paying for both, (It not even equate to dinner for one with a medium quality wine in Marlow) but I wont.
What I would do is pay £50 for a combined club.
I meet the same good people at the pubs (except Roy S, Tony H, and Dave C - they seem to be in EVERY pub I go to) To be honest I have to ask Tony H which club meeting we are going to.It's not the sort of thing that registers much with me.
Why don't you ask the total membership to vote on it and the same in the Enthusiasts club. You don't have to wait for an AGM to do this surely. Ask the members first, convene an extraordinary AGM if the results are as I think they will be, then figure out what to do from there. How many attended the last AGM compared with total membership anyway, and how many sent apologies . I didn't because my membersship had lapsed.
Dave M