Change from Within

I have been receiving a fair bit of email lately - most of it not very nice. It seems that I have upset a lot of weird beards by spelling out a few home truths and mythbusting a lot of CAMRA's propaganda. OK - I may have poked fun at certain stereotypes as well, but if you choose to look like a member of the Taliban or a wizard straight from a LAIRE meetup then you are fair game in my book. One letter I received contained the following excerpt;

"your opinions on CAMRA are based on pure ignorance. I would accept the criticism as constructive if you were a member of the campaign"

The email then descended into calling me a bunch of names which were not very nice. I won't be repeating these here. The email got me thinking, maybe I should join up and try to change the culture from within. This way I could direct my criticisms in a "constructive" manner and send them straight up to the CAMRA policy makers where at least they will be on the radar. So I bit the bullet and joined last week. My information pack arrived yesterday (pictured above). I am now a campaigner, one of 'them'.
I have reviewed about half of the material that was sent. It got to the point where I had to put it down because I couldn't take anymore of the bullshit and blatant lies deliberately misleading information that make up a lot of the propaganda. Some of the current campaigns are blatantly hypocritical and against some of the core remits of other campaigns within the overall campaign.
So what will I do now?? Well I will be continuing to shave and to exercise. No beards and/or belly's here! I will also be picking apart the propaganda over the course of the week and highlighting some of the blatant lies deliberately misleading information and why some of the campaigns are a waste of effort. I will publish that content here, as well as emailing it to the CAMRA contacts listed in my information pack. Will I effect a change - probably not, but I am going to put my money where my mouth is and have a go.