Propaganda rules!

Yesterday in Sheffield, I attended an EU propaganda day with stalls, balloons, a rather good Polish dance troupe in national costumes and even a Sally Army Band. The 'high point' of the Nuremburgian day, was a question and answer session with 3 europhile MEPs, two labour and one tory.
Let us deal first with the Band. Our Sally Army chums received a good donation from me earlier this week. They may not be getting any more as they had been cajoled into opening their 'set' with the EU anthem. Shame on them for their political naivety!

The free cakes from the Czech stall were excellent, however.

The event was packed with europhiles for whom there seems to have been a three line whip but the attendance of outsiders was relatively sparse. In the couple of hours I spent there, I doubt that many more than 80 or 100 curious shoppers came over to have a peep and a decent proportion of these took literature and DVDs from the UKIP stall.

UKIP alone stood out against what was happening and I shall not bother you with the manifold petty attempts which had been taken to marginalise their effect.

A significant number of the statements made by the MEPs in the question and answer session were beyond dishonest. Anybody with a grasp of the facts could instantly see through the deceits. Even so, the self-selecting audience consisting heavily of 'gravy train', europhile activists seemed satisfied and proud as they all proved their affiliations by voting down by a roomful to five, the idea that there should have been a referendum on the iniquitous Lisbon Treaty.
Even the BBC's Len Tingle who compered the event made a public aside referring to how unrepresentative the audience was!


I despair.