Seven months have passed since Basque Motherland and Liberty (ETA) announced its ceasefire. Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the peace process?

              Sept. 2006    Aug. 2006

Optimistic       39.4%         49.0%

Pessimistic      53.0%          39.3%

Source: Instituto Opina / Cadena Ser
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,000 Spanish adults, conducted on Sept. 28, 2006. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.

Unless Zapatero is able to push through reforms that legalize Batasuna, this is never going to end.  ETA will embrace the bullet because Batasuna was denied the ballot, and the Spanish government will deny Batasuna the ballot because ETA embraced the bullet.  Will this ever end?

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg