Now all we need is Spiff to somehow gain access to the scripts used of Fox news and we may have a chance

What people have to realise is that 9/11 shouldn't change everything (and as I'm from the UK my reply to anyone that says it does is 'what's so bad about the 9th November' - useless fact: Firefox 1.0 was released on 9/11/04 if you use the European date form, so for those at Microsoft 9/11 did change everything!).

Back to being serious: the attacks of 11 Sept 2001 were worse than anything I've seen after living most of my life under the threat of the IRA and so the worlds sympathy was with the US. President Bush managed to turn the worlds sympathy against his country by the actions following that attack. A lot of people like myself had decided that these terror attacks would not stop me visiting the US, just like I hoped that the IRA attacks and (more recently) 7th July 2005 attacks would not stop people visiting the UK.

However, the fact that visitors to the US are now treated like criminals combined with pointless rules like having to collect your bag at point of entry have meant that I'd only visit the US now for business reasons (if there was no alternative for the trip). Although I don't think the UK immigration is as bad as the US (hard to say as a citizen) our airline security rules are currently worse than the TSA and for that reason I support anyone (like Spiff) who has decided to boycott the UK and for those who really have to visit they should support smaller non-BAA airports like LCY where things are a lot less stressful (I don't blame BAA for the rules but their airports were a nightmare to begin with, this just makes things worse).

If there was a way to get into the US bypassing the TSA and immigration I'd be over there on the next flight The current exchange rates would make it exceptional value. With the new open skies agreement in place next year I expect to see a boom in US tourism from Europe as prices will be very competitive, but if immigration stays as bad is it is currently then they may never want to come back.