On not fizzling out - 3 comments
You may have noticed that the Euston Manifesto received its 1000th signature yesterday. The total now stands at an impressively-proportioned 1068.
Pleasingly, people are giving the document a chance, shrugging off the (rather boring) charges that it is empty, a media stunt, Blairite, navel-gazing, 'right-wing', or - most bizarrely of all - a product of a bunch of blokes that doesn't take account of women's issues (see this response).
Tickets to the public meeting on May 25th will almost certainly now have been snapped-up, but join the list of signers for details of future events. Can't promise anything, but it's my earnest wish that some future events will be held overseas.
Promise this'll be my last public mention of Euston until after Thursday's Elections.
Update (15th May): The Euston Group have found a new, much bigger, venue for the meeting on the 25th, so the chances are that you will be able to get tickets after all. Please check the site for the latest.
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The total now stands at an impressively-proportioned 1068.
Ah, self delusion.
The Euston Manifesto has enjoyed puff pieces in the New Statesman, Guardian and the Times. It has had numerous mentions online (200,000 according to the Times), numerous blog posts etc.
But after over a month of all that it can only garner about 1070 signatures, just over a third of the amount Unite Against Terror got.
That is certainly not impressive at all.
Slight problem with your hypothesis, matey: you're not comparing like with like.
Unite Against Terror has acquired what looks like 3002 signatures in 10 months.
The Euston Manifesto has acquired 1077 in approximately 3 weeks, and before the public launch.
Moreover, you fail to notice that the former is a statement against terrorism, while the latter is a wide-ranging political manifesto.
Lots of search results on Google - which means what, precisely? Please tell me what the optimum (Google search results count-Online signature total) ratio is, based on your experience, and we can apply this to future campaigns.
Yes, you are right old boy, the picture is not quite as bad as I made out. It is, indeed, more like three weeks since the EM's inception.
However, given all the publicity (much greater than Unite Against Terror), a rate of about two signatures per hour does not suggest a bull market for this sort of stuff.
Well, we shall see...
By the way, it's not a manifesto, its too vague for that it seems to me. Indeed, according to Mr. Geras (no less) it's actually something more akin to a discussion document of some sort.
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