London Explosions

I did NOT say England was dirty or unclean. It’s no worse than anywhere else. It’s just not much to look at compared with places that are-like New Zealand

Rubbish. Britain is beautiful. Don't knock it until you've spent 20 years walking the same route seeing something new every time.

LotR was filmed in New Zealand, Peter Jackson is a native of New Zealand. Coincidence? Not a chance. LotR would have looked just as good if it had been made here.

Britain and New Zealand are so similar barring one thing. Population. We have more towns, roads and people... plus making films here is more expensive when you don't have the right connections.

Im not dissing "Britain" because that would include Ireland, Wales and Scotland to. England is a place just as the other three are. Infact if you take Wales off England and add Scotland up with all its islands-Scotland is just as big as England if not bigger. I don’t like the way England is "England" when it does anything good but if something bad happens (like it looses at football or something) it suddenly becomes "Britain".

Totaly agree. But its not like they care if they die or not is it?

Don't be angry, that's what they want. Don't give them the satisfaction of succumbing to their will. We'll get them when we have all the facts and information.

Just get on with living life as you always have. That will RILLY annoy 'em.

i used to live in the UK quite near London and seriously Winter it would be nice to not have people dissing your home country.....because i didnt come from a nasty place like people say most of England is, and right now we shouldnt be focused on how we feel about the place, but on the terrible thing that has happened.

It's awful - And most certainly not fair at all - it's part of life though, doesn't it make you feel like you never wish to leave your house again? Oh it's awful....

It's not fair to the innocent people that die because of those stupid f*cked up people...

-Lyd

Wintersolstice:

It's a shame you clearly haven't visited Lancashire, as you'll find a lot more than boring flat fields here :) Plus, I don't find the vast majority of South Lanarkshire particularly inspiring or beautiful to look at. :)

I like the fact, and find it interesting, that the majority of this post has gone onto the 'England's green and pleasant land' tack - because this is truely an English reaction: repression.

Today's papers indicate that there might be as many as 3,000 active members (the one's who were responsible for the bombing) of this cell operating in this 'green and pleaent land' of ours. Given that this country is around 600 miles x 200 miles and we're taking every Tom Dick or Harry from anywhere in the world, well I for one find it a little bit distasteful; ney, horrifying.

Well, what do you want me to do? Cower away and never the leave the house again? You have to be joking. The reason why these people carried out this attack to make people like you and me frightened, to make people like you and me angry. They will not achieve this by such cowardly methods.

I agree with you that we don't have strict enough controls on who enters this country, but please don't let this attack be a vehicle for your hatred. If you do, then the only people who will have gained anything will be the terrorists themselves, as they will have achieved their aim.

The sad fact is that a terrorist can be anyone. They can be any colour, any religion, and certainly don't go around signposting themselves. If we 'send every Muslim back to where they came from' (wherever *that* is) then it won't stop the problem. It will only make it worse, as by doing that you're storing up even more anger and hatred on their side. There is no need for us to lower ourselves to the terrorists' level.

Karen:

I wish I could agree with you, but I don't. As I write this I hear police sirens everywhere - and this is Leeds. 'Terror alert' this and 'terror alert' that. I'll tell you something: if this was happening in some, we'll say, eastern country - there wouldn't be this pathetic english 'stiff upper lip' attitude to it all.