No camp’s ‘nasty’ outside help
He said he has read a glossy pamphlet the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) intends to deliver to every home in the coming days. And he claimed it was the most severe campaign tool to arrive into the debate so far.
“This is quite the nastiest, most deceptive piece of literature ever distributed in an Irish referendum.
“Every page is designed to paint the EU as an organisation which is out to destroy all that the Irish people hold dear,” he said.
At a briefing with Defence Minister Willie O’Dea on the issue of Irish neutrality, Mr Martin said UKIP had an extreme British nationalist agenda which was being tagged with a tricolour.
He said voters should make themselves aware of the origins of UKIP and its policies on immigration into Britain, oaths of allegiance to the Crown and a reversal of EU expansion.
He denied the Yes campaign was engaged in reciprocal scare tactics
He said the arrival of UKIP into the debate with such resources was a “significant intervention”.
“We cannot stand idly by and allow that to happen unchallenged.”
