Terrorism won't work on Britain

By Alex Singleton | 7 July 2005

Today's terrorist attacks on London show a profound ignorance of the British people. As a nation, we went through the IRA attacks. We know terrorism. But there's one thing the British won't accept: being bullied into a position. Terrorism doesn't divide us: it unites us.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the nation in a television broadcast that: "Whatever they [the terrorists] do, it is our determination that they will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear in this country and in other civilised nations throughout the world... It is particularly barbaric this has happened on a day when people are meeting to try to help the problems of poverty in Africa and the long term problems of climate change and the environment."

Our thoughts at the GI are with all those affected by today's horrific events.