Council igloos? It's their culture, innit!/October 21st 2011.

Richie - Greeings from the People's Islamic Republic of Misrata! As an upstanding small UK businessman Old Wob blagged a seat on a hastily arranged flight for Brit exporters bound for Libya as soon as news came through of the dictator's demise! On board were the usual suspects - arms dealers, taser salesmen, hi-vis jacket manufacturers, botox injectors, scotch egg suppliers & alcopops distillers, in short the finest goods Britain can offer a fledgling democracy! And what a first class welcome we received! We were escorted by a column of Mad Max lookalikes and shown the storm drain where Gaddafi was dragged to his inglorious end. Sad to say the volatile fighters didn't seem very interested in our wares - nor one Brit entrepeneur's suggestion that the drain be transformed into a lap dancing club called Mad Dogs - preferring instead to place orders for minarets, prayer mats and the latest hi-end fashion burkas for their womenfolk! It'll be democracy, Dave, but not as we know it, I say!