Day 262 - 13 Jun 96 - Page 18


     
     1
     2        "....who is a full-time student at Leicester Polytechnic
     3        and who was considering trying to organise an
     4        anti-McDonald's fair in Leicester.  However, at present,
     5        this is a plan rather than something which any action has
     6        been taken over."
     7
     8        So, again, that was something that you felt was someone
     9        saying something noteworthy about McDonald's?
    10        A.  Well, I presume so, yes.
    11
    12   Q.   I am just trying to pick up on the point that, generally,
    13        if there was something of significance said about
    14        McDonald's, you did make a note of what was said, roughly,
    15        and who had said it?
    16        A.  If I remembered who had said something, then I would
    17        have.  This is a slightly unusual situation, is it not,
    18        compared to a lot of the other things that would have been
    19        said at meetings.
    20
    21   Q.   In what way?
    22        A.  In that it involves a different area and involves
    23        someone setting up something different and new.  I do not
    24        know the real reasons why I have remembered some things and
    25        not others, but it is the case.
    26
    27   Q.   The final paragraph on that page says:
    28
    29        "Next Tuesday, 19/12/89, there are plans for some people
    30        to come into the office and to have another go at answering
    31        letters.  It was not specified which members of the group
    32        should turn up, just those who were willing to help."
    33
    34        There was not any kind of expectation that people had to
    35        take part in answering letters or, you know, anything like
    36        that; it was just up to whoever wanted to come could go in
    37        and answer letters; yes?
    38        A.  There was no expectation on people.  There was --
    39        I suppose it was dependent on people's goodwill.
    40
    41   Q.   But there was not like some kind of thing where, you
    42        know: "It is a duty.  If you are going to be part of this
    43        group, you have to answer X number of letters"?
    44        A.  There was no set down rule or rota.
    45
    46   Q.   Basically, anyone, such as yourself, who turned up and who
    47        expressed an interest could go along and do it, if they
    48        wanted to?
    49        A.  There was never any objection raised to my volunteering
    50        to do it. 
    51 
    52   Q.   On the following page, you say: 
    53
    54        "Jonathan, who originally suggested that they might get a
    55        key cut for me, has shown up only a very few times since
    56        then.  This issue has not been raised again, and I feel it
    57        imprudent for me to be the one to do so."
    58
    59        Did you ever get a key?
    60        A.  No, I did not.

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