With campaigning suspended, and the news agenda moving on once it resumes, last night's bombing will surely impact upon the general election.
Theresa May's worst day by far (U-turn, rabbit in the headlights press conference, then roasted for 30 mins at gas mark 8 at Chez Brillo) will fade into the background and she'll get a couple of days of looking prime-ministerial again.
The one cloud for her might be that this might (and only might) see a bit of a flow of voters back to UKIP from the Tories, which could turn a few marginals.
I think whatever gains Labour made will be undone by this. Corbyn is already seen as soft on terrorism at best and a sympathiser at worst. The fact that children were targeted will, IMO, see some parents who would have voted Labour having a last minute change of heart. But you are probably right on the UKIP thing too.
Could get quite ugly for the rest of the campaign, as many of us were already expecting the Tories to ramp up the 'friends with Hamas/IRA' angle towards the end of the month.
And isn't that part of the problem?
Being hard on terrorism clearly isn't working it isn't a detterent.
Why not try a different path, even if we accept that Corbyn was asupporter of the RA he alongside others were in part responsible for bringing key players to the table.
The state cn play down his involvement all they like, but SF politicians and supporters of a United Ireland on these shores were making hay with members of the Labour Party in the UK, Democrats in America and othhers who were seen as progressive.
I don't see Mrs May as being hard on terror or strong and stable. Being prepared to detonate a bomb on another country for the sake of showing you are a strong leader isn't themark of a leader in my view.
I won'tote Labour, but I really am tired of all the mud slinging in politics. More alarmingly, I am concerned about how the media control the agenda.
I think we've just got to accept that terrorism is part and parcel of living in the UK in the 21st century.
There is no solution as far as I can see.
*lives in a country which has bombed the Middle East relentlessly for the last 50 years*
The Camel: But I just can't see any solution to terrorism
You could try and vote Corbyn, hoping that starts a trend of less war-mongering PM's down the line. With no pointless wars terrorism will end, that is a guarantee. But your future generations will be significantly less well off for it.
