A threat to the establishment agenda

A GLIB portrayal of anti-Nice campaigner Justin Barrett would go something like this: unhinged, radical, anarchic right-wing, anti-abortion campaigner with a militant past.

That’s the kind of image the Yes campaign are trying to pedal of the 31-year-old No to Nice alliance leader. And there are certainly grounds for some of the description. But it misses out on one central point.

Barrett is a threat to the Yes campaign. He has already been a potent force in defeating two Government-backed referendums in the last 15 months, the abortion referendum and the Nice treaty. And having roused his political machine again, he’s hoping to make it third time lucky.