When we get frightened by something, we tend not to make very good decisions, we tend not to be very clear in the way that we think.

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They, you know, they get frightened.

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And people get frightened by dynamite.

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We are frightened that once it has gone we won't get anything like it for tens of years.

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Nonsense, say the pigeon-owners, who point out that a hawk or falcon attacking a flock of 50 pigeons may get only one of them, but that the rest will be so frightened that they lose their bearings.

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But they are frightened into voting for nationalists by leaders who use their positions to get rich.

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