Is it time for the UK to stop recognising Hosni Mubarak as president of Egypt? Mubarak does not have a legitimate claim to this title through popular consent. He was the president for the simple reason that he was clearly the person presiding – the Foreign Office recognised his government because they were the people governing. Now the streets of Egypt are patrolled by protesters and the museums are protected by activists. Mubarak and his thugs may terrorise, but they do not govern.We, Britain, cannot bring down this dictator (that is for the Egyptian people), but we can stop doing anything to prop him up.
Beth Tichborne, Louise Hazan, Nishma Doshi and Adam Ramsay, Big Society Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Cllr Rupert Read
Gary Dunion, No Shock Doctrine for Britain
Cllr Maggie Chapman
Stuart White, Jesus College, University of Oxford
David Wearing, School of Public Policy, UCL
Peter McColl, Bright Green
Sunny Hundal, Liberal Conspiracy
Guy Aitchson, Open Democracy
Emma Hughes, Red Pepper
Lorenzo Marsili, European Alternatives
Marek Powley, Young Greens
Peter Speller
Matthew Scott
Tom Allen
Katie Higgins
Dr Nicola Pratt
Dr Derek Wall
Stephen Lintott
Rachel Hardy
Odai Al Zoubi
Roger Slack
Steve Whittemore
Peter Garbutt
Jeremy Bartlett
Simon Summers
Denise Smith
Andrew Carlin
Dr Emily Robinson
Dr Heather Savigny
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/04/nothing-can-save-mubarak-egyptian-wrath
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