The thing is Trig, that being compulsively negative about everything is too easy. Lifes great challenges and all of Mans endeavours are ultimately futile, and so predicting failure when any success can only be fleeting and temporary is just an open goal. I can't remember the number of times I've had postmen, shop assistants, car mechanics, taxi drivers and the like telling me how they could run the hotel/restaurant/school/hospital/airline* (delete as appropriate) better than the team of 20 and 30 year professionals who are actually doing it. The whole world seems to be a vociferous critic, and there will
always be something that you can find fault with even in the slickest and most professional operation, but who's fooling who? You have to start thinking beyond the end of your own penis sometime.
I freely admit Len used to really wind me up (his purpose on this earth and something that floated his boat, I suspect), but after a while you got to see the well worn garden paths he would cleverly try to get you up. For me, I lost all respect for him when he admitted (under cross examination

), that he sat as quiet as a mouse at the AGM's, because he didn't have the balls (my words) to collar the people who actually matter to get his points across, (although he dressed it up as 'not wanting to be lied to' or something similar). For all the good points he raised, it was all lost in that moment. In some ways he is a loss to the forum, but he'd outstayed his welcome, become more extreme and one dimensional and his credibility even with his booster team was looking flawed. Shame...