Fake reviews to be illegal - but suppressed reviews by the Met is OK

The government has been quick to announce the crackdown on fake reviews on Amazon and other online sales sites, but has been incredibly quiet about the suppression of the metropolitan Police's reviews regarding PartyGate.

The Met has claimed that it has entered a period of Purdah and cannot provide advice that might favour or otherwise any political party. This despite the May elections being advertised at least a year in advance and almost as long to review the evidence of law breaking that took literally minutes in the hands of beat policemen and women everywhere else in the UK, indeed even in the streets around Westminster at about the time of the alleged parties.

When challenged a Metropolitan Police spokesman agreed to provide a review of PartyGate offences progress. 'Five stars,' he said, adding, 'the idea of bringing your own booze was a cracker.'

First published 26 April 2022

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'Following the despicable example set by Kemi Badenoch,' said an Ofcom spokes-pixel, 'we are worried that other bloody-minded reactionaries in Britain may take a stand and not watch the compelling, 100% factual Adolescence and its promised follow-up.

'We are now getting Labour to make its poodle MPs pass a law fining people £500 for failure to view every second of these Netflix masterpieces.

'You will all then be obliged to get into a huge moral panic and fret out loud, at dinner parties and in public meetings, about how absolutely awful 'these incels' are.

'There will also be custodial sentences for 'Adolescence deniers' - people who claim its plot is not perfectly truthful. It is a real-life documentary, as the Prime Minister stated in the Commons. You only have to see the terribly life-like camera techniques they used to know how right he is about this.

'We are also demanding legislation to make Paddington Bear Britain's new patron saint.

'The statues of him popping up on benches across the country are to be treated as sacred objects, and anyone caught defiling one will be subjected to a tedious sermon on inclusivity from some self-righteous judge who wants good copy in the papers.

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Man Utd goalie replaced with own waxwork

Light was shed on recent Manchester United results when it was discovered that goalkeeper André Onana had accidentally been replaced with his own waxwork.

The team visited Madam Tussaud’s in order to take a lot of lame, jokey photos of players next to their waxwork figures for the newspapers. Somehow, in the confusion, when they left they took with them Onana’s waxwork rather than the goalie himself.

'It’s easy to be wise after the event,' said manager Ruben Amorim. 'But yeah, when you watch footage of recent games, it’s pretty obvious. Even the real Onana did move occasionally as the ball went past him.'

'I did wonder why we had to carry him on and off the field,' admitted defender Harry Maguire. 'I thought he’d just had a heavy night, or sumfin.'

Asked whether it wasn’t suspicious that the figure just stared gormlessly into space the whole time, Maguire replied, 'Well, I’m old enough to have played with David Beckham, so...'

Meanwhile, the real Onana still in Madam Tussaud's has had to put up with a lot of indignities, especially from Man City fans. This got so bad that one day he snapped and tried to clout one of them round the head. Unfortunately he was so slow to react, the offending fan was already on the tube on his way home.