Declan Ganley has re-entered the fray. The news – announced sideways in a Wall Street Journal interview – contradicts his vow to quit if he didn’t win a seat in the Euro elections.
As recently as mid-August, Ganley repeated his promise in a series of twitter posts.
Asked if he planned to get involved in Lisbon II, he answered: ‘No plans, I gave it my best, if there’s a No, with the cross party ‘leadership’ we have in Ireland they’ll just make us ‘vote’ again anyway.’
And again: ‘In short, no plans to be involved, waste of time.’
‘I tried, I’m back in the business world and enjoying it a lot more, lots to do, straight forward logic and less nonsense.’
And finally: ‘Too busy with work to Twit much. Not in the Lisbon debate. As ever I want the EU to succeed and this little citizen to get on with business and life.’
Around the same, time, I first noticed the ‘Bring Ganley Back’ website, registered to ‘BGB’. The only contact point given is a Ballina postbox. A search for BGB brings up nothing in Mayo.
Comments on the site are uniformly fawning. I sense an astroturf movement building…
Do keep up 🙂
http://no2lisbontreaty.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/the-death-of-democracy/
Much appreciated, thank you.
Wow, the interview with Nuala and Padraig from bringganleyback.com sounds very scripted. http://voteno2lisbon.podomatic.com/entry/2009-08-27T13_42_18-07_00