"The top budget should be defence, there's nothing there for anything else. That's all there is. Defence must come first, second, third, fourth and fifth, because only if you're strong, you won't be attacked."
"What's disappointing is the antisemitism that I see everywhere, hear everywhere, or read."
"There'd be no need for a war now, we've got the wrong attitude."
"It's disappointing what's turned out now."
Mervyn Kersh, 101, of Cockfosters received a British Empire Medal for his Holocaust remembrance school talks and wartime service. He equated recognition by his own country to France's Legion d'honneur. Kersh arrived in Normandy three days after D-Day as a technical clerk in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and was later stationed near Bergen-Belsen at liberation. He says his wartime service "was worth it" but expresses disappointment at current Britain, citing widespread antisemitism. Kersh urges a defence-first budget and warns that weak leadership and appeasement risk repeating the mistakes that led to the Second World War.
Read at www.standard.co.uk
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