Watching television and listening to the radio, I soon realised that here was a widely held sentiment: a visceral opposition to what one critic suggested we should literally call "the nanny state".
Muslim dismay at Tony Blair's co-invasion of Iraq in 2003 did not sway that decision, though it could be argued that anti-war sentiment inhibited proper post-invasion occupation planning and encouraged the Sunni insurrection against both invaders and Shia Muslims.
It also should be positive for sentiment because it would allow investors to focus on the Indian operations where the news around price increases has been encouraging.
Britain's previous prime minister was uneasy, a sentiment that was felt – it later turned out – all the way up to the highest turrets in the land.
It led to the main sentiment of Blake's title track: I want to be around, still, "when everything's overgrown".
If Abbott has his way, that sentiment is going to be harnessed by the government to introduce laws which will cut down basic civil liberties, in particular by restricting bail and enlarging Asio's powers to spy on the public at large by use of electronic data.
In the biggest upset in the men's draw so far, the Frenchman swept to victory on a tide of local sentiment, Tsonga battering his way to a quarter-final appointment with Kei Nishikori, the world No5.
"Mom Blogger" @Mom101 asked: "How is this not the lead story on every single news network, every Twitter newsfeed right now?" That sentiment was echoed by a number of Guardian readers over the weekend.
She won't really be drawn on whether the focus on the Welsh language has hampered Plaid's success in the Valleys ("Certainly the Welsh language has been used as a stick to beat Plaid Cymru with by our opponents, in a very dangerous way, actually, and an irresponsible way. I don't think that's acceptable"), nor on anti-English sentiment within the party.
Fringe parties such as the neo-Nazi Chryi party, whose fortunes have risen on the back of anti-immigrant sentiment and fierce opposition to austerity measures, could capture as much as 5%% of the vote according to polls released in the run-up to the election.
We on the other side need this sentiment too, because the flaccid no campaign has focused on the dry, the tedious; the worst-case scenarios, and the scaremongering.
