The fall out from Rik Willis's unguarded milk and cookies postings on PoliticalBetting.com rumble on.

Council leader David Sutton, called Mr. Katesgrove by his branch colleagues because he's spent more time in Katesgrove in the last 6 months than he has in the last 6 years, said: "It is astonishing and disgraceful that a politician in modern multicultural Reading should come out with a statement like this... British jobs for British workers!"

Lib Dem Group Leader Bob Green commented, "I wondered who Fred Pugh was going to give his Rhodesia tie to when he retired." Labour Prospective Parilamentary Candidate Anneliese Dodds desperately wanted to get her comments in the story and added: "Remember me?"

However, one man was standing by the beleagured councillor, Fred Pugh told us: "I visited Rhodesia in 1977, so I know what it was really like. It wasn’t a racist regime, despite what everyone thinks. Those black boys really knew how to treat us like kings."

Rik himself was said to be unphased by the reporting. At a meeting of the Tory group in the Civic offices on Monday he was heard to say: "Ha ha ha. Cumpsty you're going to be made to squirm at the next ethnic minorities forum. Thought you'd be Tory leader when Fred fails to be elected Mayor again. Think again or I'll write something else on the web site."

Martin Salter reacted to the furore by setting out an Early Day Motion in the Houses of Parliament to regulate the minimum size of bass that were allowed to be landed.