Direct flights from the Yemen to Britain will be banned as a key part of new anti-terrorist measures following the failed attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner, Gordon Brown announced yesterday.Whilst I'm not an enthusiast for travellers from Yemen, how is banning flights from that nation on the tip of the Arabian peninsular a response to a failed attempt to blow up a transatlantic flight?
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Whats more worrying, is that 90% of the electorate because they are so bloody imbicilic, will believe that he really HAS done something about the "threat", and so the master prick will get voted in another term.
It won't change anything, but it will give stupid voters the impression that the Government is doing something useful.
FT, LfaT- I doubt the voters will actually be impressed by stunts like this.
They never fail to be impressed by a 2% income tax cut, even though all the other taxes jump through the roof to make up for it.
They are idiots.
This cannot succeed unless other countries do the same and there are no flights between countries where there are a lot of terrorists, and countries where terrorism isn't a big problem. Doing that would not fully protect us from terrorists who are home grown. For it to fully work, we'd have to have an extreme imigration policy.
"Whilst I'm not an enthusiast for travellers from Yemen, how is banning flights from that nation on the tip of the Arabian peninsular a response to a failed attempt to blow up a transatlantic flight?"
Something has to be done. This is something. Therefore, it has to be done!
Three days later I am still absolutely stumped, so all I can do is second what Julia M said.
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