True enough McG, but you know as well as I do that politicians of all colours always work on the basis that 'If you're not against me, you must be with me', in which case they would see the 'minority' of vociferous protestors as irrelevant and the 'silent majority' who stayed at home as a huge 'Yes' vote.

I must be one of the very few people who disagreed with us going in to Iraq on the stated basis of the WMD issue, but who would have been happy for us to go in if the reason given for it was the removal of an evil and genocidal dictator and his replacement with a democracy. Having said that, I would also then expect us to do the same in a number of other countries such as Zimbabwe, but that will never happen unless oil's discovered in large quantities there.