Wingers starting to spin the protests to their side!!!

Talking about this Gaurdian article and poll.

Protests begin but majority backs Bush visit as support for war surges

Alan Travis and David Gow
Tuesday November 18, 2003
The Guardian

A majority of Labour voters welcome President George Bush's state visit to Britain which starts today, according to November's Guardian/ICM opinion poll.


The survey shows that public opinion in Britain is overwhelmingly pro-American with 62% of voters believing that the US i "generally speaking a force for good, not evil, in the world". It explodes the conventional political wisdom at Westminster that Mr Bush's visit will prove damaging to Tony Blair. Only 15% of British voters agree with the idea that America is the "evil empire" in the world.



http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Politics/documents/2003/11/17/1711icm.pdf

I couldn't find the actual article this guy is posting here from the Gaurdian's home page - it sounds legit and the that URL with the Poll PDF is valid.

So 38% of britons don't agree that the U.S. is "generally speaking a force for good, not evil, in the world". And that's suppose to be a good thing?

On edit: fixed link

somehow I don't think this is real. My Dad always said 'it's bad enough to be a liar, but when you start lying to yourself it's time to throw yourself in the butterfly net'!!

They still think Bush is an evil, gibbering, drooling, chimp.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1087545,00.html

Note the demographic breakdown:

<snip>
The detailed results of the poll show that more people - 43% - say they welcome George Bush's arrival in Britain than the 36% who say they would prefer he did not come.

Labour voters are more enthusiastic about the visit than Tory voters. But it is only Liberal Democrats who are marginally more unhappy about his arrival, with 43% against and 39% willing to welcome him. A majority of "twentysomethings" welcome Mr Bush. Hostility is strongest amongst the over-65s. There is a clear gender gap in attitudes with a majority of men - 51% - welcoming the president's arrival, compared with only 35% of women. <snip>