[Jamietwo]

I think the British in general are fairly friendly emotional people who are on the side of the underdog. If you think about some of the BB winners like Bez or Nadia for eg. One of the problems I percieve it that politics in the west have become little more than administrating capitalist excesses....the banks, economy etc. USA seems to be in the lead with this trend, closely followed by UK , while countries like Greece are still struggling to fight it, but they will be broken in like we have in time. This goes back to the Thatcher/Reagan years and as Thatcher said "there is no such thing as society", the rich poor divide and crime go hand in hand and immigration suits greedy entrepenures with cheap labour, while the working classes have to deal with the social problems. You don't find large immigrant communities in green belt Surrey for eg. It's a horrible mess. You may find a sense of freedom, civilsation and culture in meditteranean countries still, for a while. But no amount of heart felt people power can reverse the trend of capitalism. Islamic exremism/terrorism in part is a reaction to this trend as more and more pressure is put on those nations that are religious non-secular...Personally I prefer a secular society where religion is seperate from politics, but what we have is money led politics , ie of little philosophical or social importance, and it's in these areas we are suffering the most. I don't think there is anything we can do to reverse this trend, I believe it is going to get much much worse before there is any hope at all of a change in direction...we will probaly see a bigger divide in police/military v's people and at it's core is capitalism.