Puzzled by the continuing furore about Abu Qatada? I certainly am.

It really doesn't matter whether he goes or stays. The risk he poses to human life is about as much as a Tesco chicken. He may have been Osama Bin Laden’s right hand man but he certainly isn't now. He has been on the front pages of newspapers, featured on TV, watched by police and bugged by MI5 to the extent that no real or potential terrorist is likely to go anywhere near him. And as for the amount of money being spent on keeping him here. Well compared to that being wasted on the Olympic Games, it pales into utter insignificance.

I rather think that it's all a cunning plan to make us think that something is being done about terrorists (albeit clumsily and inefficiently) to distract us from the actual threat to our way of life and civil liberties.

No, the real threat seems to me to be the way the UK Border Agency totally fails to protect us from illegal immigration particularly by Muslims from Afghanistan and other Islamist countries. Anybody who has seen those documentaries called UK Border Force will know what I mean. And those are just the occurrences they allow us to see!! There are thousands coming into this country every year (just as a statistical liklihood) and even when they do manage to catch the odd one or two they fail to keep hold of them or even to remove them immediately because of insane human rights regulations.

In certain camps in France they are literally lining up to take risky trips across the channel so that they can lodge spurious asylum claims while living off state handouts and plotting god knows what sort of mayhem against the civil liberties of the rest of us.

Don't get me wrong, I have no objection whatever to the inhabitants of our former colonies and commonwealth coming over here legally and taking our jobs and sharing in our alleged prosperity. After all we took advantage of them for hundreds of years and so a little payback is justified. Surely this is what multiculturalism really means - people of different races living and working together. Not something that is forced upon us by some form of so-called democratic human rights regulation.

And the scary thing is the way this threat is creeping up on us so insidiously in the form of political correctness and namby pamby liberalism. Just look at the way, for instance, that the press refers to those vile murders of women as "honour killings" and how reluctant anyone in government is to make any kind of forceful declaration against arranged marriages.

Let's drop this dangerous Convention on Human Rights now before it causes any more damage. What could anybody do to us if we withdrew from it today. Nothing at all.