It worse than I thought, the UK has lost its backbone. For the last 2 weeks, the leftie media has been assuring us that anti-American feeling is running so high in the UK that 100,000 people would be protesting against President Bush's visit.

Now unlike idle journalists who blithly interpret numbers as a "ground swell of opinion", shall we take a look at the facts here? The CIA Year Book (do you like the irony?) gives the poplution of the UK as 60,094,648. Therefore 0.166% of the population dislike Bush sooooooooooo much that they are going to protest. Fair enough.

I feel a sense of perspective is required here. Last year, 407,791 of us marched through London to protest against the bill to ban foxhunting - thats 0.679% of the population. Or to put it another way, 4 times as many people want foxhunting saved as want Bush to go home!

But the truth is nothing like that. I have just come back from a meeting in the City - through Trafalgar Square (approx 1000 soap dodgers there) & walked up to the US Embassy (not a single scumbag there). I got back into the office & took a quick look at the Associated Press site. They put the numbers in "hundreds".

So, just for a minute, lets be unusually charitable and call it 5000. That figure equates to 0.00832% of the population….or……wait for it……..81 times the number of people care about keeping fox hunting than hate Bush!!!

Now, look at how much media attention has been focused on Anti-American feeling………..uummm………..do I sense a hidden agenda, or am I just being far too cynical as usual?