How do you think the average londener will react? Across the pond we are told by our media that the war on terror is very unpopular there.
Interesting comment.
At this point, it's not even known who promulgated these bombings. It doesn't seem like the work of the I.R.A, and I don't believe the anarchists who oppose the g8 gathering would have the sophistication or the courage to undertake such an attack. So, it's time to point the finger at the "usual suspect".
I know tensions are running high at the moment, but I'm wondering if the overall impact of this (by the majority of English, albeit _not_ by our own conservative UK'ers like MadIvan) will be to _diminish_ the popularity of Tony Blair and to actually _blame_ him, because of his staunch support of G.W. Bush and the war on terror.
Call it the "Madrid effect".
The left will complain, "if you [and the government] had not supported the United States, the Islamics would never have become so angered with us". And blah, blah, blah.
Another interesting comment was from someone who noted that this attack comes on the seventh day of the seventh month.
- John
How do you think the average londener will react? Across the pond we are told by our media that the war on terror is very unpopular there.
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I think the reaction will be/is stoic, people wll get on with it. London has always been under threat from one thing or the other since WW2 but there are more of us than them so statistically people know there is little chance of getting hurt.
I think it was on here somebody noted that in the May General Election that 70% of the newly elected Parliament were from pro-war parties, which probably shows how little the War effected voting rather than support for the war. Support has always been 50-50, with majority support before the war and large minority after it (and a large minority who care neither way).
I think we are scheduled to leave Iraq for Afghanisatn at some point in the next year or so and we will not change that unless the troops are needed elsewhere urgently and we will not let those buggers get any kind of result/