“You know, Im not sure that these people have quite understood us.”
Lots of commentary, obviously, on the London bombs. Tim Worstall and Europhobia both comprehensive.
Two widely-quoted passages sum things up nicely. Worstall:
I have a prediction to make, that tomorrow well find out whether Britons are, still, in fact, Britons. Many years ago I was working in The City and there were two events that made travel into work almost impossible.
The first was a series of storms that brought down power lines, blocked train routes and so on. Not surprisingly, the place was empty the next day. Why bother to struggle through?
The other event was an IRA bomb which caused massive damage and loss of life. Trains were disrupted, travel to work the next day was horribly difficult and yet there were more people at work than on a normal day. There was no co-ordination to this, no instructions went out, but it appeared that people were crawling off their sick beds in order to be there at work the next day, thrusting their mewling and pewling infants into the arms of anyone at all so that they could be there.
Yes, well take an excuse for a day off, throw a sickie. But you threaten us, try to kill us? Kill and injure some of us?
Fuck you, sunshine.
Well not be having that.
And Europhobia:
I tell you what, if this is an “Islamic” terrorist attack, they’re doing a piss-poor job. The pubs are all packed out, people sipping their pints happily, all a tad pissed off, but basically fine with it. Nice one, Al Quaeda – you profess to be from a teetotal religion, and you’ve given the pub trade a massive mid-week boost. Result.
Also, as a side-effect of all this blog consumption from over yonder, I have only just learned that Home Secretary and national ID card proponent Charles Clarke has been nicknamed “Safety Elephant”. Nice one indeed.
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