Corbynistas are sayng that no-one is in favour of Britain backing the US in exacting retribution against the Assad government. I have never believed this to be true. A poll from Sky Data shows that 51% were in favour of action being taken against the Assad regime. 32% were against and 17% were don’t knows.
A friend of mine is a professor at UCL. He was kind enough to lobby students and lecturers at UCL and the result was the same as the SKY poll. Students and lecturers when asked, in the main, agreed something must be done. The feeling was if we allowed a poison attack once on British soil, with no retaliation, the door would be open for further attacks. Continue reading