[headsonpikes]

Tut-tut...you're merely a prisoner of British colonial racism, Ivan, old chap.

Our Robert's probably going to be scooping up the Nobel Peace Prize, or some such hardware, during the next decade.

Maybe the Pol Pot Humanitarian Award.

[MadIvan]

Tut-tut...you're merely a prisoner of British colonial racism, Ivan, old chap.

I plead guilty to being in favour of maintaining British colonies particularly in Africa; the people who live there have not benefitted whatsoever from being independent. Kwame Nkrumah, the man who started the whole tide of African independence, was a fool and a charlatan - he allowed no transition time whatsoever for any devolution of power to take place.

Democratic institutions require building up habits that take several generations to develop - less than 100 years of colonialism in Africa didn't do it.

Regards, Ivan