FT readers against the war

[Chris Burford]

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
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