let'em eat amotal

[Burgess, John]

I guess I get your point, but question your assessment.

I won't argue "a long and pretty disgraceful record when it comes to 
secret decisions 
affecting the lives of its subjects and others."  I won't argue, not 
because I agree, but because the argument will resolve as a clash of 
opinion.

What still confuses me, though, is your statement:

Given a choice of having rockets fall and destroy the symbolic heart of 
the nation or re-directing them to working class residential areas to the 
south and east of the city ....

What is the "symbolic heart of the nation" you refer to?  The rockets 
were falling on "London."  Admittedly, the UK concept of London isn't 
always what a non-Brit would think of: it's both the City of London 
(i.e., one square mile in the center, which not houses the financial 
industry) AND the "London" the surrounding buroughs and counties that 
make up what most would casually assume to be a single city.  

If you're considering the City of London as the "heart," then your 
argument doesn't really hold up as that particular region had the shit 
bombed out of it long before the V-weapons make their debuts.

If the second "London" is what you have in mind, your argument is even 
weaker. The docklands are very much a part of that "London."  They, too, 
were bombed earlier in the war, and far more effectively than any damage 
the V2 did.

If you're intending a metaphorical "heart," then I simply don't know what 
you mean.  Buckingham Palace? (basically vacated during the war, at least 
at night)
Westminster Palace (i.e., Parliament)?  (most functions had be spread out 
to avoid the "all the eggs in one basket" problem.)  The museums and 
galleries? (the valuable stuff had been moved undergound and waaaay out 
of town.  Besides, the rockets were landing to the _west_ of those 
targets already.)

P.S.

The answer is a) yes, b) no, c) I'd have to kill you after I told you. 

(Choose as many as will fit in your world concept)  ;>