What are the reasons we are falling behind on Nice?

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday October 17, 2002 21:30 by Not to reason why

Will the left even bother to analyse this?

Of course not, because LAN excluded, they fought lousy half hearted campaigns. Most posters were poor, leaflets said nothing about the real issues.

Envirnmental issues, Nuclear power, CAP or food mountains was never even discussed. Older people were never told what the EU intends to do with pension privatisation in the very near future. The EU has cast its greedy eyes on ‘solving’ what they call “the pensions time Bomb” Younger people were not enlightened about the connection between ‘intellectual’ property and the banning of Napster and music file sharing, of course the ‘scientific socialists’ of the SWP don’t have time to listen to music and illegal music at that! Disgraceful carry on all together, even anarchic. Most Groups totally ignored the ‘Jobs’ issue, even though opinion polls were clearly showing that this hoary old issue has resurfaced once more with the collapse of the celtic tiger. Ff have posters almost everywhere with jobs plastered on them.

Among the most loony half baked stunts was the Irish Anti War movement going on a weekend trip to Shannon in order to get 1 minute of tv publicity, when they could have got loads of press coverage through their (unpublicised) anti Nice position, if they had bothered to do a bit of half decent press work. The biggest failing was not coming up with an effective way to expose the Yes propaganda emanating from RTE, THE tabloids and the ref con, and I don’t mean the once off picket, which was just ignored.