Shatter boldly goes on mission to Klingon to seat

A POLITICIAN is boldly going where no politician has gone before, stretching the limits of political credibility into a new dimension with a bizarre pastiche of camp sci-fi classic Star Trek.

Shatter boldly goes on mission to Klingon to seat

Fine Gael’s Alan Shatter, who at the next general election will attempt to reclaim the Dáil seat he lost in 2002, has distributed a unique newsletter to voters in Dublin South.

On the cover of the four-page newsletter, which is apparently designed to resemble a glossy celebrity magazine, Mr Shatter is pictured in Star Trek uniform alongside a photograph of the original star of the TV series, William Shatner.

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