I agree with timbrayford to a great extent - 'stand together or hang apart'! So much duplication, path cutting and lost opportunity.
BUT - I think snowy's comment actually might have hit the nail on the head. The whole shooting community is quite a divided one when you get right down to it. Many staff members - particularly at higher levels are shooters so ultimately out of that same divided pool. I suspect - not know, but suspect - that the divisions and politics that we see rolled out during every discussion about The Organisations are just as rife between them as us.
It doesnt really matter what your stance is - pro them or against, power ego players, money grabbers etc etc - it really doesnt and everyone entitled to a view whether one personally agrees or not. BUT - the focus always comes back to the differences, not what we have in common. Whether its based on religion, skin colour, territorial boundary or a shooting sport history suggests such a mindset rarely produces cohesive non partisan ( not the PPU ammo kind
) co-operative effort.
To overcome that inertia needs charismatic leadership - none evident; or some cataclysmic event that forces co-operation. Previous legislation events suggests that short of a total ban on all fieldsports no event will be deep enough to unify us.
Missed out ( edit ) - the likes of LACS, RSPCA etc do have their internal issues - but a far more focussed commonalty of purpose. Their position readily attracts support without deep thought - so they have the advantage of being default choice. They also - ALLEGEDLY - do not have FACs etc to carefully protect interms of potential campaign techniques. I raise the point purely hypothetically and make no claim whatsoever of any wrong doing by any such organisation.
Additionally, they capitalise on their default position by spending sums on professional fund raisers that would cripple even the BASC war chest. It is the infighting thsat keeps our organisations small and poor that presents the biggest threat to not being able to 'just carry on as we are'.
So is all lost? I believe change best starts with the individual