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My multisigned _Guardian_ letter this morning:

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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