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     1        mean, as I remember it, the meeting was about the future of
     2        the group, what sort of campaigns we were going to be
     3        running in the next year or so, and also to discuss whether
     4        or not there was going to be a 1990 fayre, because there
     5        was some disagreement about that in the group as well.  And
     6        no, it was not a McDonald's campaign meeting.
     7
     8   Q.   Right.  Actually if we look at page 56, Mr. Pocklington
     9        says that the picket outside the new McDonald's in Chapel
    10        Market was by Hackney and Islington Animal Rights?
    11        A.   Yes.
    12
    13   Q.   And that information came from you.  That is correct, what
    14        is written there, is it?
    15        A.   Yes, it is.
    16
    17   Q.   Right.
    18        A.   I mean, there are a lot of inaccuracies, particularly
    19        bad inaccuracies, I think, in Allan Claire's notes of those
    20        meetings, just from having read them.
    21
    22   Q.   Right.  And Mr. Pocklington says, about the meeting on the
    23        25th:
    24
    25        "It would concern the future of the group and plans for the
    26        coming year, as well as strategy concerning further
    27        anti-McDonald's plan in the form of another fayre".
    28
    29        Was that your recollection, that the meeting was about the
    30        future of the group and that would obviously include some
    31        discussion about anti-McDonald's things?
    32        A.   Yes.  I mean, I think at that meeting I think I
    33        mentioned again, as I was often doing at that time, that I
    34        was planning to produce a pamphlet, booklet on McDonald's.
    35        That would have been discussed by me and I think there
    36        would have been a discussion, I think there was a
    37        discussion about the fayre, whether we should go ahead with
    38        one.  And I think that is when it was decided to call it
    39        the London Greenpeace Fayre.  And this again, my
    40        recollection, accords with the general idea of the group
         then, that we wanted to get away from being seen as a
    42        single issue anti-McDonald's group.  Not that we ever were,
    43        but as even being seen by other people as being one.  You
    44        know, there were people in the group then strongly arguing
    45        that the McDonald's campaign should be laid to rest.
    46
    47   Q.   And who was that?
    48        A.   Well, one of them was Dave Morris, definitely.  I
    49        mean, even before that he was saying it, but even more
    50        strongly by then.  And, I mean, even I was not arguing that
    51        the group should go full tilt against McDonald's. There was
    52        no need to, because other groups were doing it anyway, like
    53        Hackney and Islington. I only wanted to just produce a more
    54        up-to-date booklet, that is all.
    55
    56   Q.   If we go to page 630 of the notes, this is 18th January
    57        1990.
    58        A.   Yes.
    59
    60   Q.   On the first page it says: