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As far as Blair and his popularity goes I think he will come out of this unscathed in so much as the anger is 100% directed at the terrorists and not at Blair who may have given them the reason for the attack. The war here was and is incredibly unpopular but so far i've not heard anyone in the media or public lay the blame at number 10 which i have to say i agree with. Blair made his decision about Iraq years ago now and just 2 months ago we voted for him to stay in power so to now turn round and claim the blood for this is on his hand wouldnt sit nicely with the British public as they would then have to examine their own hands pretty carefully. Im saying this as someone who did vote Labour. I'll also say though that if there was a credible alternative i would have voted for them. Just 2 cents from a British/Scottish point of view.

I dont really know enough about the Spain side of things to comment on it though they have had problems with seperatists for decades. ETA are well known for their violent methods but Cataluna has some equally strong desires to be idependent so i think to say they "folded" is a very harsh generalisation on a country for being shocked in to changing its government.