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     1        we have seen from their notes, Hackney and Islington and
     2        various different groups were writing in letters to London
     3        Greenpeace.  So obviously it was not, you know, shifting at
     4        this time.  That was something that happened a long time
     5        before
     6
     7   Q.   It began to be discussed, did it not, after what
     8        Mr. Pocklington called "the fervour of the 1989 fayre".
     9        The idea began to be floated that the 1990 anti-McDonald's
    10        fayre, I stress the words "anti-McDonald's" for this time
    11        in 1990, should be the last one?
    12        A.  As I said before, it is my recollection that after the
    13        1989 fayre, when the subject was brought up about a 1990
    14        anti-McDonald's fayre, I was opposed to it and I believe
    15        some other people were as well.  There were some people who
    16        were enthusiastic and Moe put forward a suggestion about
    17        getting local groups to organise anti-McDonald's fayres in
    18        their own air area.
    19
    20             That suggestion was not, in fact, taken up and instead
    21        the people who were interested decided that they would have
    22        a general fayre, London Greenpeace fayre.
    23
    24   Q.   In due course indeed they did, Ms. Steel, but you are not
    25        trying to tell me, are you, that you were arguing for
    26        McDonald's to be let off the hook that the stage in the
    27        group's history, are you?
    28        A.  Well, you say "in due course".  But in actual fact, in
    29        the feet meeting of 25th January, Mr. Pocklington does
    30        record that the anti-McDonald's fayre is not to be
    31        repeated, which is before these notes of Mr. Clare.
    32
    33   Q.   25th January page 69, it says at the bottom of page 68 in
    34        fairness to you:
    35
    36        "This year the anti-McDonald's fayre is not to be repeated,
    37        however this year the plan is to hold a general fayre in
    38        which all the issues in which this group are concerned,
    39        including the McDonald's issue, will be highlighted."
    40        A.  Yes.
    41
    42   Q.   I will read on, the provisional date was 27th October, that
    43        is in fact when it did take place:
    44
    45        "It was indicated that the group's anti-McDonald's
    46        activities were no longer at the fore, as they felt that
    47        they had achieved more or less all they can by creating an
    48        awareness into McDonald's activities and by the fact that
    49        so many other groups internationally had taken up the
    50        banner.  It was agreed that they would not be totally
    51        ignoring the issue, but that there were other projects
    52        which needed their attention more." Is that right?
    53        A.  Mr. Morris in particular was arguing that people who
    54        were campaigning about McDonald's, there should be less of
    55        a focus on McDonald's and that people should move on to
    56        other issues.  As far as I was concerned, my main emphasis
    57        in what I had been involved in had already been the IMF
    58        campaign, ever since I got involved in the group.
    59
    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, I understand you say that.  But when Mr.

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