Keith
Enough is enough.
It has become impossible to discuss British policy critically in any shape or form with you without being accused of being 'anti British'
It has become impossible for me as a British citizen living abroad to criticise British policy without the fact that I have chosen to no longer live in Britain to be used as a substitute for argument.
This has now reached the stage where to criticise British policy is now eliciting accusations of "mental instability"
This fanatical attitude has surfaced over and over again on thread after thread and has driven them into the ground.
Similarly, on the subject of Israel, it has become virtually impossible to discuss the Middle East without being accused of Antisemitism implicitly or explicitly, by you and others.
I have always, without exception, attempted to dealt in the facts in hand rather than the ethnic origins or religious beliefs of those involved - that has been my practice throughout my life - it is how I have been brought up to behave.
I am not particularly proud of my dealings with you and I am quite aware I have not handled them well, but this really is the last straw.
If you, Muskett, Bearded Bruce..... or anybody else on this forum ever again resorts to these tactics I will have no hesitation but to make a formal complaint to the administrators and attempt to have you removed from the relevant threads.
If you continue you behave in the way you have here, anywhere else on this forum I will ask that you be disbarred from membership altogether, as I honestly believe that your behaviour has not only destroyed threads, sometimes in my opinion, deliberately, but it is also in danger of bringing the reputation of this forum into disrepute.
I have never since joining this forum ever even considered such an action.
I will not take these discussion off forum as you have consistently requested - I have no interest in your views any more than I assume you have any in mine, and being forced to to discuss my opinions and beliefs in secret negates my and anybody else's reason for being a member of a 'Public Forum'.
Stick to the the facts of the subjects in hand as you see them, or the next time this behavior is repeated I will have no hesitation in carrying out my stated intention.
This applies equally to you "Guest Muskett being patriotic", as you appear to have adopted Keith's level of argument (though in your case, I am not sure of your position as you have appear to have chosen no longer to be a member of this forum anyway)
Enough!!   
Jim Carroll