The Myth of The great SF Referendum machine

national | miscellaneous | news report Saturday October 19, 2002 15:52 by Ourselves Alone

They fought a poor campaign by their standards, perhaps bertie made a deal ? Would this explain their dire Posters and campaign generally?

It is becoming known that in a lot of Cumainn, most SF election workers did not even bother to canvass on Nice. They certainly did not cover adjacent areas or even streets that were just outside their constituency boundaries. Their activists were so apathetic that they even cancelled going out leafleting on some occasions, this would not be tolerated during an election, needless to say. The word on the street is that they will not be using their full machine on referendum day and they will not be organising mini buses, cars and other transport to go around working class areas as they did successfully during the last general election.