london
We lived there, and had interesting times, for close to two years. I felt as if the bombs had gone off a lot closer to New Zealand than they really had. This was a place I once called “home”.
The best response I’ve read so far is here.
What the fuck do you think you’re doing? This is London. We’ve dealt with your sort before. You don’t try and pull this on us.
Yeah, that’s the spirit. Forget the politicians, it’s time for the city, that ravening, hungry, dirty, but livable and lovable blot on the green and pleasant land to take care of its own. Tony Blair and his self-conscious aping of Churchillian prose and inflection can take a jump.
Still, what happens next?
Alan
8 July 2005, 15:15 #
And so far, the best blog posting I’ve found on it is here. The author was in the carriage ahead of the one on the tube bombed near Aldgate.
Heck
8 July 2005, 15:17 #
I can’t help thinking… New York, Madrid, London. What’s next? Paris? I say we sack the politicians for good and take over. It’s obvious they have no clue how to handle this stuff.
Mr Reasonable
11 July 2005, 22:23 #
When the IRA tried to blow up Mrs R and I (too close for comfort on two occasions), people would say “aren’t you brave going to work” and “aren’t you worried”. Well the answer was that we were scared but you have work as you have no choice and you think it’ll never happen to you. Well it damn well shouldn’t but it does and these postings are pretty spot on. Politicians will never solve the problem because the people responsible are rarely rational and you can’t reason with a fanatic. Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t try though.