Britons on the world
Harry's Place mentioned an ICM poll that showed most Britons believe that the US government had some knowledge of September 11th 2001 before it happened.The poll was conducted for "The People's Poll", a programme presented by Al Murray to be shown on the UKTV G2 channel.
Some other findings were:
* 40% think we went to war in Iraq over oil, while 10% believe Tony Blair's explanation of WMD.
* 93 per cent think political leaders lie to them 'sometimes' or 'all the time'.
* 40% say they believe in ghosts. 50 years ago it was 1/10.
None of these seem particularly surprising however. I think we went to war in Iraq over oil. Obviously the 'some' means you have to answer 'yes' to the second question. The third is rather alarming, but perhaps a sign of the times. 50 years ago many Britons thought the Queen was a direct descendant of God.
Update: There's also an interesting thing on how things have changed since 1954. Poor coal miners.
Most admired men - 1954
1 Winston Churchill
2 Duke of Edinburgh
3 Anthony Eden
4 Sir Edmund Hillary
5 Clement Attlee
Now
1 Nelson Mandela
2 Bill Clinton
3 The Pope
4 Lance Armstrong
5 Tony Blair
Most admired woman - 1954
1 The Queen
2 Eleanor Roosevelt
3 The Queen Mother
4 Lady Mountbatten
5 Odette Churchill (second world-war heroine, nee Samsom, no relation to Winston)
Now
1 Margaret Thatcher
2 The Queen
3 Kelly Holmes
4 Hillary Clinton
5 Mum
Can you name any occupations where you think those who work in them are paid too much?
Then
1 Miners/coal workers
2 Civil servants
Now
1 Lawyers
2 Footballers
posted by Matthew @ 11/23/2004 01:05:00 PM
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