Day 277 - 10 Jul 96 - Page 42
1 A. I really do not see what this has got to do with
2 anything in this case.
3
4 Q. It has to do with the credibility of your case, Miss
5 Steel. You suggested that nobody in the group?
6 A. I accept nothing with what happened with PC Blakelock.
7 How could I possibly comment on anything that had to do
8 with that?
9
10 Q. Very well. Can you turn to the next page of this document,
11 please? Page 160, and I have read it so many times that I
12 would rather not read it out loud again. I would just like
13 you to read that second paragraph to yourself under the
14 heading 'Campaigns'?
15 A. Yes.
16
17 Q. Now, this leaflet was in circulation, I think you told us
18 yesterday that this was perhaps more often circulated than
19 any other piece of literature in the group's whole library;
20 is that right? Those are not your exact words.
21 A. I don't think that is what I said. I think I said
22 something that I remember that there seemed to be an excess
23 quantity of them hanging around in the office.
24
25 Q. Yes. And it was in circulation during all the time, in one
26 form or another during all the time that you were a member
27 of the group was it not?
28 A. There was a leaflet giving some of the background to
29 the group, but as I recollect it there were substantial
30 changes.
31
32 Q. What about that paragraph, that has never been changed, has
33 it not, since 1986?
34 A. I do not know. It may very well have been changed
35 since 1986.
36
37 Q. You are very familiar with that paragraph aren't you?
38 A. No, not particularly.
39
40 Q. Is there anything in that paragraph of which you personally
41 would disassociate yourself?
42 A. If I personally had written it I would not have --
43 well, I mean, the way the leaflet is written is not in
44 general the way that I would write things.
45
46 Q. I am interested in the substance, Miss Steel, not the
47 style?
48 A. Well, I did not initiate a campaign against McDonald's.
49
50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, I do not think that is what Mr. Rampton
51 is putting to you.
52 A. No, I am going through it.
53
54 Q. Would you disagree with the substance of anything there,
55 for instance?
56 A. I am trying to get through it.
57
58 Q. As I understand it would you disagree that the campaign
59 against the McDonald's Hamburger Corporation was perhaps
60 the most successful campaign that London Greenpeace has
