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Jon Moores
Guest
A number of interesting points in this.
"Where are our PR agencies" - interestingly the most effective since the PETA campaign started has been the Countryside Alliance for example Charles Jardine was TV in the Northwest last night. Where are the NFA who recently turned down help from the CA?
As regards What can we do? I think we can do a lot of very simple things on a personal level to make the idea of restricting angling seem absurd to the average non committed person. Anything we do to make angling appear a normal popular part of everyday life helps our cause. In a sense the people who matter in the long run are not the antis or ourselves, but the vast majority of people for whom it matters not. These are the people whos acquiesence to either our cause or the anti's will determine what happens in the end. Anything that makes Joe Public see us as part of the normal pattern of life will help - even seemingly trivial things like reports about your club in the local paper (many will happily print a short report and good photo) or dishing out Rainbows you've caught to your work colleages.
"Where are our PR agencies" - interestingly the most effective since the PETA campaign started has been the Countryside Alliance for example Charles Jardine was TV in the Northwest last night. Where are the NFA who recently turned down help from the CA?
As regards What can we do? I think we can do a lot of very simple things on a personal level to make the idea of restricting angling seem absurd to the average non committed person. Anything we do to make angling appear a normal popular part of everyday life helps our cause. In a sense the people who matter in the long run are not the antis or ourselves, but the vast majority of people for whom it matters not. These are the people whos acquiesence to either our cause or the anti's will determine what happens in the end. Anything that makes Joe Public see us as part of the normal pattern of life will help - even seemingly trivial things like reports about your club in the local paper (many will happily print a short report and good photo) or dishing out Rainbows you've caught to your work colleages.