I was wondering if Jack Straw would pick up the gauntlet thrown down by Nick Griffin MEP BNP and meet the BNP Chairman head to head and then for some reason the old saying: "An apple does not fall far from the tree" sprung to mind and that got me thinking about fathers.

Well we know what Nick Griffin's fathers duties were in the 2nd World War.  He serviced radio's for Spitfires.   I would have preferred it if had he been a pilot but without the radio telling you where to go a spitfire would have been useless.

And indeed up until the British bombed Berlin, a calculated move to infuriate the Germans into targeting London instead of our airfields and radar stations like Ventnor(the only one destroyed), a British airfield was a very dangerous place to be.

The German mistake of not continuing the attacks on the British airfields and radar stations is something we should all be thankful for, even if London and cities like Coventry paid an heavy price for it, as it gave our hard pushed Royal Air Force a well needed chance to reorganise and regroup.

And perhaps if my father had driven his Bren gun carrier out of danger instead of into it, he would have won the VC instead of just being awarded a Mentioned in Despatches and made disabled. He once told me that the Germans had done him a favour, as he was not sure how he would have got by without a disability pension.  He also wondered when we would get the Land fit for Heroes that the our soldiers were promised.  He died still waiting for it.

Now, remembering the scars on my late father, I know how lucky I am to be here and having read my history books, I know just what my fathers generation went through to help us retain Our Freedom - a freedom we are fast losing. But I used to get very angry when I would read about prominent Jews saying that Britain had not done enough to save the Jews during the 2nd World War.  And that gets banged out more often than you would think if you are a regular net trawler and notice things.

Questions remain over whether more could have been done, and sooner, to succour the victims of Nazi persecution. The British government and the public knew about the Nazi persecution of Jews, homosexuals, Sinti and Romaa yet it maintained normal relations with the Third Reich."

While Britain took 70,000 Jewish refugees, Prof Cesarani maintains that many more could have come were it not for restrictions.

So what did part Jewish Jack Straws father do during the war?

1. Go and fight those who were persecuting the Jewish People?
2. Hide under the stairs?
3. Go to jail and refuse to fight?

If you chose 3 you were correct.  Jack's dad preferred to be tucked  up safely in jail rather than fight against those who were practising genocide against the jews.  Eating regular and sleeping safe at night, whilst our troops fought and died.  What a guy.  Will his son  go head to head with the BNP chairman? What do you think?

I am proud of my fathers war record.  I am sure Nick Griffin is equally proud of his father's war record.  But Straw must be deeply ashamed and perhaps that is why he thinks the British have no right to exist.  But then again is he really British or just another British Citizen with no loyalty to Our People or Our Country?  Big difference.