The Good Colonel 

Lungfish

Gaddafi the gadfly

smell the glove

No Sir Rod
He is serious.

Noa

"..a statement which out-racists the most racist Spanish Catholic or Hungarian crypto fascist MEP.."

A funny line of thought that; implying as it does that only white europeans are racist fascist bigots. Is this is the reflexive reaction of the Old Left to even the possibility that Arab muslims or black Africans could also be rascit bigots.

Mr R

Racism these days is not a function of WHAT is said as much as a function of WHO says it. A bit hypocritical, sure, but what can you do?

Robert Taggart

Another Muammar Mortar ? !

Oedipus Rex

@Noa

I think that's exactly the point being made - in the typical unstated irony meets anvil-fisted bluntness that characterises Rod's blogs.

Gaddafi is a malignant clown, and how 'racist' he actually is may be hard to tell. But we know that he won't be judged in the same way as if he'd been an Italian a few miles across the Med. (BTW wasn't he - or Libya as a whole - representative or even 'chair' on a UN human rights committee? Beyond comedy).

As for the 'Old Left', I think that anyone can be racist and that often those outside of Europe can be more extreme than us is the more sane opinion and I suppose I'd consider myself the 'Old Left', or maybe 'Disillusioned Left' or just plain 'Orwell-type Left'. It was the 'New' variety that brought us 'cultural relativism' and all that malarkey.

rod liddle

It doesn't imply that at all, Noa. It simply says that he out racists them. Everyone can be a racist - black white, mulatto, half caste, etc. You can too if you try.

Noa

Oedipus Rex.

Yes, I think you're right. Rod of course, by admission, is the of the 'Old Left'.

Whether or not Ghadaffi is a racist(and of course he is), is a red herring. He's simply stinging the EU for as much as he can get using the threat of the black invading hordes. If the EU blockaded Libya do you think that he would permit their continued presence on Libyan territory?

So yes, as Rod says, he's taking the piss.

S.Tarling

He is a bit of a geezer aint he Rod? He used to suround himself female bodyguards in mini-skirts. Slightly oily, loose permed hair, every time I see him I'm expecting him to burst into the Macarena. Heeeeeeeey Macarena. He looks like a character from Bo' Selecta! in that photo. Proper Geezer though.

Oedipus Rex

Noa "If the EU blockaded Libya do you think that he would permit their continued presence on Libyan territory?

So yes, as Rod says, he's taking the piss."

Of course, by extension, if the UK blockaded the EU do you think that they would permit their continued presence on EU territory?

It's not just Gaddafi who's taking the piss!

Dave

'At the moment there is a dangerous level of immigration from Africa into Europe and we don't know what will happen.

'What will be the reaction of the white Christian Europeans to this mass of hungry, uneducated Africans?

'We don't know if Europe will remain an advanced and cohesive continent or if it will be destroyed by this barbarian invasion. We have to imagine that this could happen but before it does we need to work together.'

I think I like him too.

Edward the Thirst

Now this is the one person who could have turned things round for Endemol.

Dixon

MR The Liddler, what he demands he is entitled to expect by Islamic custom from non-Muslms.It is called "Jizya". Please do look it up. Then you will understand the logic of his statement, as it would appear to the gallery of Islamic ideologues to which he seems to be playing, rather than viewing it in terms of a Carry-on-Up-Tripoli caricature as you seem to be doing.

Don Birnam

A murderous psycho who lives in a tent and farts like a trooper. What's not to like?

toby runcorn

I would like him more if he disciplined his son when he beats up servants in Swiss hotels.

GaryO

And what of his stunt in Rome to convert young white European women to islam. No doubt you're also an admirer of the fact that many duly obliged.

Ha, ha, what a hilarious thing to do, ya. Really funny guy.

Blue Laguna

Regardless of the motives of Colonel Thunderbird here, it would appear that we find what he says a talking point in itself.

Ergo does Libya have more claim to free speech today than modern Britain??

Oedipus Rex

Blue Laguna: "Ergo does Libya have more claim to free speech today than modern Britain??"

Erm...you can't be serious? The only free speech in Libya is his. Everyone else has to toe the line on pain of something painful.

You're not another of these paranoic plonkers who think 'we can't say this or we can't say that about immigration' when evidently we can - and there won't be a knock on the door at night.

Bill Corr

The Mad Colonel simply HAS to be indulged brecause of Libyan oil and gas.

Interesting things the Colonel had to say about Africans! Has everyone forgotten how Libyans went gaga and chopped up black Africans by the score not so many years ago? Do a google search if you don't remember!

Isn't Our Adored 'Straight Kinda Guy' Blair on the Mad Colonel's payroll?

And isn't the Colonel remarkably like Bob Dylan in appearance these days?

Harry Calder

Bill Corr: "And isn't the Colonel remarkably like Bob Dylan in appearance these days?"

It's always seemed to me that the Colonel in his younger days used to look remarkably like Lionel Blair. And you never saw the two of them together, did you? Hmmmm - makes you wonder...

disgruntled of beckenham

ah, Mr Lid, i was wondering when you would get around to this... He is fantastic for a sound-bite isn't he? Let's not concern ourselves too much with this chap; it's enough that al megrahi is still in rude health...

daniel maris

He's just being an Arab (or Arabo-Berber perhaps) racist, since Arabs have always looked down on African Blacks and enslaved them in the most horrible circumstances (all male African slaves were subjected to full genital removal after capture...the reason why there isn't much of a genetic heritage from the centuries of slavery. )

wiggins

Geezer alright, does he support the Lions?

Peter Charnley

LOL.

My goodness the world has moved on. 2+2=4 is enclosed in quotation marks and the cyanide is called for.

Only joking. Great article. I know what you mean in the broader sense.

Besides, these days, we must save the contents of that precious little phial with the skull and cross bones label on the side for the real nutters. You know. Those screwballs who dare to so much as furrow their brow when their towns Christmas tree lights are cancelled in case it offends minorities. Priorities.

Ozzy

It's a shame Rod couldn't find a photo of the Colonel. He's had to make do with one of Diego Maradona.

Eddie

Ozzy - actually, I thought at first it was Michael Jackson!

WRL.

Before or after the baby/balcony/paparazzi scene?

Its all a matter of facial expression I suppose. Does it read, 'I'm bored, there are a lot of people with cameras out there, shall I....'

or

'Oops, I shouldn't have done that'.