And if they hadn’t would we have gone the way of France Holland or Hungary?

And if they hadn’t, would we have gone the way of France, Holland or Hungary? Would Aryan Brits have flocked to the Anglo division of the Waffen SS? Is it possible to imagine Captain Mainwaring, clearing out the Warmington- on-Sea ghetto, prior to the final solution? Would Corporal Jones have spent his war supervising the crematoria workers at the Maidstone extermination camp, and would there have been a grainy snapshot of Private Pike hanging a would-be escapee in the central square of the compound?
Not us, guv. The rather pitiful little concrete pillboxes that would have sheltered our last-ditch Bren gunners, still stud the river’s north bank, from Lechlade down to Staines They wouldn’t have had a prayer. Put quite simply, it is: do your job .STEPHEN FORDEStockport, Greater Manchester. IF THE Germans had successfully invaded Britain along the south coast, and the Royal family had decamped for Canada, the plan was to hold the panzers along the line of the Thames, with a chain of fortifications called Stopline Red.

But whilst the powers remain, a police constable and a chief constable would clearly be neglecting their duty if they failed to employ those powers as laid down in law whenever they saw fit.Until such a message is given to the politicians, I think it is probably safe to assume that the vast majority of the population want the streets to be policed. The police should also keep in mind that it is not just the vocal minorities that have expectations of the police The silent majority also have an expectation. Its effectivness is illustrated by the increase in this type of crime since the predictable over-reaction of the police to the Lawrence enquiry.If the public do not wish their streets to be policed, then they should take responsibility for the decision and its consequences, and tell the politicians, who can then remove the stop and search powers from the statute books. Street crime affects all citizens including the law-abiding majority of the ethnic population.The fact also remains that the most effective way of policing and preventing this type of crime is pro-active, on-the-ground policing, including stop and search. It should be noted that a police constable’s primary duty is the preservation of life, the safety of property, the prevention of crime and the arrest and prosecution of offenders.

It is not the duty of a constable, or chief constable for that matter, to kow-tow to the pressure of “community leaders” or self-seeking, career-minded politicians.
The fact remains that a disproportionately large segment of the ethnic minority criminal population is involved in street crime, as opposed to the white criminal who typically is involved in property crime, burglary etc. Crime on our streets

Sir: Your leading article “Stop these searches until it’s proven the police aren’t racist” (12 August) failed to grasp the true nature of the problem regarding the policing of street crime. And the sight of identical covers on every daily paper will probably never be repeated in my lifetime At last, I’ll have something to tell my grandchildren about

CLIVE WHICHELOW
London SW19. Probably more awesome than the few minutes of premature twilight enountered at 11.11 on Wednesday morning.

Sir: When I walked into my newsagent’s this morning and looked at the rack of newspapers facing me I was momentarily stunned. Every front page of every paper, tabloid and broadsheet, had an identical cover picture of the eclipse It was.. well, awesome. A popular club along Oxford Street in Central London, The Metro, charges only pounds 1 on Thursday nights.Lucy Hodges. At the Holloway Odeon close to UNL, prices are reduced further, from pounds 5.50 to pounds 4 from Monday to Thursday only.