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Livingstone has summed it up perfectly. A cowardly attack that
hasnt achived anything and has fucked normal people of every background. This is compared to
the "we will not be defeated, continuing struggle’ hyperbole that Blair
has been issueing forth.

At times like this you need leaders who speak honestly and have some connection with the people they are speaking on behalf of.

I managed to miss the whole thing by a few minutes as I left Kings Cross at 8:45 ish (i have visions of walking away from Kings Cross, walkman on with disarster response crews appearing in the background).  For the rest of the working day I was spotting the internet and pub TVs.

I wanted to go and see what had happened to the City and get on with getting home, but my office wouldent let us leave untill the end of the working day. So when i finally did it was all a bit weird as most people had already left zone 1.

I left work at 5:30 and walked back to towards Brixton. This was my walk home:

Ambandoned busses are an odd sight, in the same way clowns are a bit scary. They were parked all over the city - Clerkenwell Green, Holborn, Elephant.

Walking through Lugate Circus everyone seemed to be looking up and round and at each other a bit more. Its a bit corney, but they looked like, after a day looking at it through the internet, they were checking it had actually happend, and that London was OK (I’m sure Peter Ackroid could explain) .

There was a great picture comming down Fleet Street - three buissness men in a rickshaw womdering whay they didnt travel like this normally.

It is the same kind of feeling as on a tude strike day, but minus the aggitation.

There was another rickshaw on the south side of the river running along The Cut, but the shocked feeling was gone a bit.  There were loads of police around Elephant, all looking a bit strarey - standing outside tube stations nattering. Eventually I nabbed a free bus (333) at kennington.

From the news so far, and from peoples attutude on the streets, there doesnt seem to be any feeling of hate or wanted revenge. There doesnt seem to be a consensus at all just yet. Is it shock. Or does it mean that its up to the policitians to mold it? Its interesting that the first opinion i read was from blogs. This is as opposed to the news networks who were purely doing info peices.  Can blogs make help set the consensus response to this?