Robomatic...The question "was Thatcher right?", referred to her assertion that "there is no such thing as society"

I am haunted by the words of the lady on the bus, who asked for assistance to help the dying youth.

"Most of them just averted their eyes" she said.
We all think this was cowardly and disgraceful conduct, but
I see an analogy with public perception of politics in the UK.

It seems that our government can do as it wishes without censure.
I'm sorry to keep harping on about Iraq, but it really has been a blunder of gigantic proportions, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents, many of them children. It has made the lives of ordinary Iraqis worse than when under the Saddam regime. The much vaunted democratic elections have proved to be a sham, and a vehicle to deliver an Islamic republic.

Women are actually going to have fewer rights than when under Saddam , whos regime was secular.
There is also the matter of American and British young men being slaughtered daily to no good purpose.

In short the whole enterprise has been a disaster, and instead of calling to account the man personally responsible for our envolvment.....Mr Blair, the British public "avert their eyes" and elect him for a third term.

When his actions bring suicide bombers onto the London streets....as we warned it would , the British public "avert their eyes" and say it would have happened anyway.

The culture of individualism that Thatcher promoted and which has been continued and "improved" by Blair,means that we are unable or unwilling to take collective responsibility for even the vilest of crimes committed by our leaders....Ake