Comments on: IS THIS MY FATHER’S ENGLAND?

By: Rick Moran

Rick Moran — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:47:22 +0000

I’m not the only one who believes that England may give in and give up:

http://nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200507080805.asp

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:28:51 +0000

dave bones,

Thanks for speaking on our collective behalf. You can say what protesters and pundits believe and you can say what you believe but there is no man in the world who can claim to know the beliefs of a whole city.

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:24:58 +0000

We Londoners do have a busy LLL contingent and it has been publicly influential, as you know, but they are not much of us. The man’s comment about ‘Little Beirut’ - that’s what we call the southernmost part of Edgware Road. The Edgware Road runs for miles through northern London, from Edgware down to Marble Arch in town. I know that if you stop people near the Marble Arch end you may catch shoppers and workers, like me, heading to and from town but it’s mostly Muslim residents and shops, and wide boys too skint for town who are invariably paranoid and up for demented conspiracy theories. The comments are certainly not irrelevant - I hadn’t really been hearing this shit from Londoners after the attack, it took a journalist. To their credit my Muslim friends weren’t grumbling about conspiracies this time, they clearly are in the same boat, and by choice. You’d need to get around London a lot more to encounter a truly representative sample of Londoners. A mile up from Little Beirut or a few hundred yards south, is a lot more settled, a lot less ’street’. But there was a bomb at Edgware Road station and that’s where the comment was.

I’m really touched by the American response.

By: Rick Moran

Rick Moran — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 20:26:06 +0000

I wish I was as optimistic. Given the numbers for and against the Iraq War and the geneal laizze fair attitude Brits seem to have about Islamists in their midst, I just think that something has gone out of the Brits since WW II. Maybe it was the burden of empire, I don’t know.

Maggie Thatcher temporarily revived a sense of “Britishness” I thought but the Blair Administration has been so internationalist and geared toward integrating the Brits into Europe that it just doesn’t seem to me that they’re the same people who stood alone against Hitler for two years.

I hope I’m wrong.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 20:11:14 +0000

I don’t believe the majority of Brit’s believe that way at all…its all MSM spin. Sure their are moonbats everywhere…but really this is a war of good and evil. Do we really have to guess which one we are?