The was some surprise in Reading when members of the Jewish community were invited along a meeting organised by the Reading Commission for Racial Equality to remember and reflect on the Holocaust, in stark contrast to not being invited to the Gaza meeting co-organised by them at the Pakistani Communty Centre.

Martin Salter made a brief cameo appearance and was surprisingly invited by the chair to make a speech, despite it not being on the agenda, then sneaked off early before the guest speakers started. "I don't think I'd have missed anything," he said. "The guy from Zimbabwe would only have gone on and on about the humantarian catastrophe there, the British Government's terrible handling of the situation and their poor treatment of asylum seekers and incarceration in Yarlswood, and I certainly wasn't going to stick around to listen to that. No votes in it."