The 'Enough' Campaign was set up in April 1992. Based in
Manchester, it comprises fifteenish youngish activists, who have
a variety of backgrounds (but none of whom currently has a really
proper job). We have organised two National 'No-Shopping'
Days (thereby winning TimeOut's 1993 "Scrooge's Last Desperate
Stand Against Christmas Award"), built one nine-foot manic
puppet, set up one mobile lounge in the streets of Manchester,
written and distributed countless leaflets and even more begging
letters, placed a variety of subversive articles in esteemed
publications and held workshops at respectable meetings, lobbied
the grown-up campaign groups, had two songs written for us,
appeared one on national TV (they got sick of
us at the local radio station), confessed to 754
acts of rampant consumerism (between us, not
each), used hundreds of commas, and
influenced no Tory MPs at all. . . and all this in
only two years! But our real moment of glory
occurred shortly before our first meeting, when
a local DJ began our interview with the immortal
line "But you look like normal people..." To
which the only possible reply was, "Only because
our hairshirts are in the wash".