When lying, lie BIG

Let me put it on the record I am a pacifist and have been and am against the war in Iraq.

However, when three former army chiefs and the commander of the Desert Rats in the first Gulf War, put their names to a letter, saying, "We call on all those who seek to hijack the good name of Britain's military for their own advantage to cease and desist", even I had to take notice.

As you might have guessed they were (probably) referring to the obnoxious and odious BNP using images of a Spitfire with the legend "Battle for Britain". How insulting and stupid can that party get?

The RAF Roll of Honour for the Battle of Britain recognises about 600 pilots from countries other than the UK, alongside more than 2,300 British pilots, that's about one-in-five of "The Few".

When I was at university in Manchester, I lived close to the Koło Polskie and made friends with an aviator who had flown with the 303 "Kosciuszko" Squadron. There was bravery and modesty all in one human package.

The antithesis of the bombastic blustering buffoon Griffin who will be preening his preposterous plumage on Question Time tomorrow.

I can only end with what the generals wrote namely that "the values of these extremists, many of whom are essentially racist, are fundamentally at odds with the values of the modern British military, such as tolerance and fairness".