THERE is no case for Britain to send soldiers to Mali or any other part of North Africa.

We have no interest there and never had. If we fear terrorism so much, then this adventure is doubly moronic.

This is why I despise almost all Members of Parliament: our Prime Minister risks taking us into yet another stupid war, and most MPs do not even care.

Where is the rebellion? Where is the Opposition? Where are the demands for an emergency debate in which our motives and reasons for this latest nonsense are examined?

It will give terrorists a pretext to attack our country they did not have before. Like the Afghan war, it will also allow terrorists to kill us without needing to travel here. We will send our servicemen there, where the terrorists can more easily shoot them or blow them up.

If, three or four years hence, British soldiers are returning from North Africa in coffins, our political class will burble solemn tributes, as they do now when the dead come back from our futile mission in Afghanistan.

Much less is said about the larger numbers of terribly wounded young men, each of them worth 10,000 MPS.

Colin Henson, Ullswater, York.