At present the Clubs are basically centres for discussion. They are collections of people more or less active in politics who gather to talk over contemporary issues from a broadly common standpoint. The discussion at times reaches a profound level and is accompanied by some research (as with study groups), but the great majority of Clubs do no more than talk. Almost invariably the talk is private—its contents are not communicated beyond the membership.
This state of affairs is not good enough. While desirable and necessary, discussion alone does not guarantee a healthy future. It is even possible that the reverse is true: when the controversial subjects have been exhausted, when the novelty of the new approach has worn off, it may be that attendances begin to fall away, that stagnation is imminent.