Roy,I seem to remember that I presented you with plenty of facts in our "step in the finish" debate including the fact that not all ploughs shift the soil as far as the ploughing width which blew your theory right out of the water, however you chose to ignore and carry on waffling and we are right back there now with you trying to defend the indefensible, I cannot comment on whether or not Mr Richardson was shouted down as I was not at the AGM, neither were you, however given the way others have been shouted down in the past Mr Richardson's account at least has some credence.
It seems I am being misunderstood. I am not defending the perceived treatment of Maurice in any way. I would however like to know much more about it before taking sides. As you have pointed out, I have made the mistake of taking sides before. Strangely enough, I have experienced similar treatment from the society. I will explain. Many years ago, the government was alarmed by the use of car parks etc as race tracks by the younger element of the population. It brought in legislation requiring all vehicles used in public places to be road legal, the drivers to hold driving licences. As this would have killed some off road sports, schoolboy grass track for example,governing bodies of such sports could ask for, and be granted "Authorising Body" status, and such events they organised would be exempt from the legislation. There was ,however a time limit for these requests to be made. I stood up at a meeting of the organising group for the Shillingford national, and asked the Society to make the request. I was pointed told that it was not required. The result of that is the fact that, as the public are allowed in at matches, all ploughing kit must be road legal! That technically makes the vintage trailed class, crawler class illegal, as its an offence to mark a road surface now, and all drivers and equipment must hold the required paperwork, so all drivers have to hold a licence, this then killing the junior training class
That is a direct result of my view being treated with contempt by the chair of the meeting, treatment it seems that is an endemic part of the organisation.