Libya

So the opponents of the Gaddafi regime are in Tripoli, have taken hold of members of the ruling family and it looks like the game may soon be up. The West will be relieved, as the possibility of Gaddafi hanging on haunted them for a while.

But who are the people taking control of Libya? Cameron crows on behalf of Britain that the time is up for yet another Middle Eastern dictator, the suggestion being that 'the people' have risen up against him and a stable, liberal democracy will obviously follow. But what we are seeing all over the world is the real damage colonialism did. Forced by changing concepts of national behaviour, countries such as Britain pulled out of their 'empire' and handed control back to the people living there.

Some, such as the Belgians in the Congo had to be forced to leave. But too often the idiot liberals, so sure of a national right to exist for these foreigners, imposed national boundaries on them. These made-up countries had little allegiance to the nation state they were handed. Palestine, the nation that has never existed, established a claim and places such as Saudi Arabia and Nigeria were given boundaries, enclosing tribes under a state government. Iraq of course, is a tragedy we set in train and have again revisited with more pain.

And the power struggles have simmered and festered for decades. But so dim are these people who know best and rule because of it, that they are now setting up the balkanised state of Europe. It is using a disaster to create the political solution a few politicians desire and putting in place the seeds of major disasters of the future. The EU should be dismantled with all haste.

Britain should lead this Europe-saving drive as we have done, more than once in the past. Those who oppose the EU are referred to as 'Eurosceptics' as if they feel that some things may not be quite right, but overall it is basically sound. Well I am not a Eurosceptic; I oppose it wholeheartedly in the same way and for the same reasons that I disagree with anyone who says 2+2=5.