Theresa May and Eric Pickles demonstrate the depths politicians will plumb to ingratiate themselves with a community under attack when they hold banners aloft claiming “I am Jewish” when in fact they are not Jewish.

It is patronising and self-indulgent nonsense but totally in keeping with the lengths some politicians will go to – just to ensure self publicity.

I am delighted to support my Jewish friends and would stand shoulder to shoulder with them in total support of their right to be free from any sort of persecution, but I cannot imagine they would be too delighted for me to claim to be Jewish.

Politicians are so keen to adopt the slogan of the day – remember “bring our girls home” or has time diminished any remembrance of 200 girls taken into modern-day slavery by the Islamic group Boko Haram?

Silly-billy politicians like Mrs May and Mr Pickles should not indulge in absurd antics simply to satisfy a photo call – but there is an election brewing and the Jewish vote is nothing if not important.

Des Morgan Caraway Drive Swindon