The British film industry today announced the release of the heartwarming Tale of Piddington Bear.
Based on the much loved Paddington films, but updated to reflect contemporary attitudes, Piddington tells the story of an orphaned bear from darkest Peru. Like Paddington, he’s named after the place where he arrives in the UK, in this case a small Oxfordshire village.
But whereas Paddington was welcomed with open arms by a warm and loving community, with only the almost certainly Reform-voting Mr Curry hostile to him, Piddington is immediately seen as a threat.
One scene has an outraged local telling TV news crews - “I used to let my son walk the dog in the park. I won’t be able to do that no more. Not now there’s someone foreign around.” Strangely she ignores the fact that the newcomer is a bear, a large carnivorous apex predator which is likely to make him far more of a threat to boy and dog than merely being from abroad.
In the end the village is so angry it votes to secede from the UK, following which the Prime Minister declares it a “safe third country” and starts deporting failed asylum seekers there, prompting the mayor to say, 'Bloody hell, we didn’t think that through.'
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