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Cavalier
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 Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject: One Governing Body |
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Well what do you think ? same thing in't it, I mean, should we have only one party in the country 
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Thomo
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Running the country or the sport? 
At the moment I think you will find only one party does run the country... but that can change at each election time...
Paul
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Dark Helmet
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Er, we DO have one political party running the country and for the most pat of our recent history this has always been so. 
The main exceptions being the coalition during WWII and the LIB/LAB pact in the late seventies IIRC
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Pierre Head
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Thomo wrote: |
Running the country or the sport?
At the moment I think you will find only one party does run the country... but that can change at each election time...
Paul |
Well if the same carnage is in place as used to be the scene at division meetings, nothing will get changed. It's the same old game. Street sweepers by day, managing directors by night. I remember one instance very well. My local Con. Club got in financial difficulty due to the no-brainers. While playing snooker I said to one or two others who ran their own business's that perhaps we should get them all to resign and we'll do it. Well they agreed, and we had the place back on it feet inside two months. Now where's those Chechen rebels? |
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Mossy
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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A bit like the "who will follow Lance" question . Who will follow Labour when they eventually loose an election?
If the tories get in will they give BC more power to punish TLI?
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Rafiki
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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Cycling should have only one governing body... The fact that we are split up into BC (doing well in the Olympic based funding stakes) the CTC (strong on the local issues) the TLI (strong at minimising bureaucracy and attracting riders cos of low overheads) and the CCT (or whatever the RTTC calls itself these days)(good at appealing to a portion of the converted)... shows that we are going to have a quiet voice. The sooner the bodies unite the sooner we get a proper voice.
As regards the nation... I'd love a one party state, so long as it was one with a social, economic and ecological conscience... but I ain't found a party to fulfil all those requirements...yet! |
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Rich Hill
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The main benefit I see from having one governing body is to ensure a consistancy to the whole sport ... something that has been missing for way too long and that confuses and puts off new comers...
CTT in my mind is too old a too beuraucratic (sp?) ... and would be best wound up and giving up its experience to the BC who are reallly leading the way...
For the sake of the sport this would be the best thing...
TLI can keep on doing what they do - but agree to feed people into BC structure... ;-0
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troy spartan
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Dick Thrill wrote: |
The main benefit I see from having one governing body is to ensure a consistancy to the whole sport ... something that has been missing for way too long and that confuses and puts off new comers...
CTT in my mind is too old a too beuraucratic (sp?) ... and would be best wound up and giving up its experience to the BC who are reallly leading the way...
For the sake of the sport this would be the best thing...
TLI can keep on doing what they do - but agree to feed people into BC structure... ;-0
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I couldn't agree more.
copuld be done with all the money generated from testers! BC could build another track, buy some more of those fancy carbon track bikes, send some more women to world cup track meetings and on longer winter training camps in the sun. The benefits are endless  .
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Thomo
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| CTT in my mind is too old a too beuraucratic (sp?) ... and would be best wound up and giving up its experience to the BC who are reallly leading the way.... |
Being involved at a Divisional level for BC, and District level for CTT, as well as organising races for both, I can honestly say there is more bureaucracy in BC. Much more. CTT, being older, doesn't mean it is worse or that it is incapable of rapid development and change. At a very basic level, the BCF bureacracy was based on the RTTC system, with club representative to a district (or Division) level, that reported to a national level that governed the sport. Over time, there has become more layers within BC now than there ever is within CTT.
Ultimately, IF CTT ever did thow in the towel and let BC run time trials, I reckon BC would still keep most of the current CTT regs in place, and the sport itself wouldn't change that much from what it is doing today - time trials will still happen on roads with 1 minute gaps between starters and they will be timed over a set distance.
I don't think BC really want to take on TT's though...
Paul
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