JUST a thought, but would the Yorkshire electrician who hit the headlines for displaying a palm cross in his works van still be working if he had been Muslim or Hindu?

We all thought Colin Atkinson’s problems had been resolved and his job secure after he won an agreement with his employer, Wakefield District Housing in April, that he could return to work after the row over displaying the cross. But now the matter has been resurrected, as he has been suspended after speaking to the media – which apparently breaches a confidentially clause of the agreement – because contrary to his expectations he has been transferred to a new workplace and has no van at all.

I don’t profess to know all the ins and outs of Mr Atkinson’s case, but it all began simply because he choose to display his Christian faith.

The whole thing really does make you think what very strange times we live in.

Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, Wressle, Selby.