What Lab don't seem to realise is full cost recovery doesn't create additional monies!
In addition, not delivering a reasonable service whilst charging more isn't a good basis of service provision or contract. Failure to deliver renewals, variations issuance in reasonable timeframes will result in many complaints!
Whilst Lab are imho certain to win, the Tories haven't exactly been of any benefit to our sport either! Under their watch they increased club's fees to £372 renewal & £444 application, introduced a reactive medical & application processes that adds to the cost & burden, presided over a series of woeful consultations that have threatened & damaged many aspects of our game from lead bans to whistleblowing on fellow shooters by club officials! Introduced this system of statutory guidance that seems to allow the police to devise any rules they want & then call it law?
I also think the wellbeing of the nation, its society, defence, social cohesion & economy are far greater cause for concern than the impact of one political colour on shooting ...... & it's absolutely clear that the current brand of Tory, & especially the Truss right-wing refugees now in Reform can't be trusted with that! 14 years of woeful maladministration, cronyism, fraud, lying, policies & favours to suite their financial backers, lobbyists & corporate businesses over & above the citizenry of the nation demonstrate that clearly!
So, people should vote as their conscious suggests vs as an NGO of a sport thinks on what will be seen by society in the greater scheme of UK life, a pretty minor issue! & I personally dont belive anything in any manifesto, history tells us the gap between promise & delivery is gargantuan! So the chances of this becoming real are theoretical at best.
I will vote tactically; my constituency has been split into a tory safe southern seat (now marginal with Reforms involvement) & a safe Lab seat north & my MP Bim will be out of a job come July. Hés been bloody useless to shooting too, so no loss there!
Having come from Uni & Uni shooting, worked in aerospace, defence, regulatory industries, seen 3 kids thru schooling & to Uni & work. I can see the utterly disastrous effect of Tory rule on that & them. They won't get my vote, but I won't be voting on a narrow issue either, even if that's shooting, but on the national agendas & the longer-term future of the country.
Other than that - I also hope to see the Scottish Nazi Party decimated! & my friends in Scotland released from their parochial form of socialism & their divisive nationalist jingoism, that overflows the sectarian football terraces up there into daily life!
