[PEN-L:36128] FT readers against the war

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In an opinion poll released yesterday, support for the war in Britain had
shot up to (I quote from memory) 54% against about 30% against. So
Blair's gamble that people would rally round the war, even without UN
approval, has been proved correct. Possibly they big show of a full
transparent debate provided the moral equivalent of that sense of due
process.

However the poll was taken at the weekend before the mounting troubles of
the campaign. 

One detail was interesting, although the base numbers were small for each
category, the results were analysed by newspaper readership. The readers
of the broadsheet press remained against the war, including the readers
of the Financial Times. 

This is not a clever war for finance capitalism even if the US armaments
industry may benefit. Fundamentally it does not represent the interests
of finance capitalism. 

Yes it is a stretch, but I am going to stick my neck out: if the people
of the world and finance capitalism are not in favour of
this war we should not expect it to be very successful politically. Who
will be the fall guy?

Chris Burford
London