Yes, I'd rather have someone with the right idea rather than PR skills.

I know this is generally unpopular with you guys, but Tony Blair fits this for me - PR over content (and I think it would be fair to say most people in UK). Many if not most people in Britain feel (rightly or wrongly) they have been mis-sold the need for war..and he is inheriting the wind politically. I voted for him first time around, but wouldn't now. He has diminished parliamentary democracy, given executive posts to unelected, big-business figures (e.g. Lord Sainsbury - Science minister - supermarket owner/inheritor) or old pals (e.g. Lord Falconer - head of Judiciary, talentless lump, shared an apartment with TB, presided over the 1billion 'millenium dome' fiasco). (Note the 'Lord' this, 'Lord' that - but here's another argument). There have been all kinds of corrupt goings-on.

Yeah - he's good at speeches - but so what - you tire of this when you have seen a few dozen tear-jerkers without delivery of promises. He is what he appears to be - a slick, ambitious lawyer.

But re the religious crazies - these are dangerous people irrespective of their religion. That's one reason why I'm an agnostic. There are Christian crazies, Jewish crazies, Muslim crazies (Buddhist crazies, anyone?). These fanatics SHOULD NOT be tolerated (am I making this clear yet?) - ok, explained with a B52 if really necessary - BUT it doesn't mean we return to the dark ages of religious persecution. Christians did some really bad things in the past (check out European history last 1000 years) and even now (northern Ireland, closer to home, to each other).

Just my opinion.