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Charles Kennedy asked to speak at STW demo 15th

heather | 13.02.2003 10:57

Popularist Hijack?

Please don't let Kennedy speak at the demo on the 15th. He is jumping on a popularist bandwagon, having been urged on by the pro-war Guardian. Yes, we are a coalition, he is welcome to march as part of the coalition, but allowing him to speak is allowing the demo to be hijacked by the liberal party for their own political reasons. He showed no interest in coming out against the war before. This is an insult to all those activists who have campaigned through the lean times. Other politicians from various political parties who have spoken before are those who have been with since the beginning. The Stop the War movement is NOT a platform for the Lib dems to rise to power.

Protest to  office@stopwar.org.uk

heather

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Display the following 12 comments

  1. I'm not going to listen to .. — jackslucid
  2. Let him speak — monkeychad
  3. Stop war — andyC
  4. WE are the movement — heather
  5. Yes come to think of it ... — jackslucid
  6. opportunist! — concernedz
  7. Opportunists — heather
  8. opportunists — heather
  9. missing the point — gnome
  10. I did — heather
  11. 1991 — andyC
  12. Kennedy takes the piss... — Neo-anarchist