MAYDAY CANCELLED!

Surprise Government Announcement! Quite literally, this year, there will be no Mayday.

In a surprise announcement, Tony Blair's government has decided to ban the 1st of May. April will have 31 days as opposed to the usual 30 and May will formally start on the 2nd. During the hurridly convened press conference last night the Prime Minister said, "Due to recent protests, demonstrations and marches disrupting the center of London and the City on May 1st by anti-globalisation activists and unions, we have decided to do away with the day and hopefully it will be just like any other working day" The Home Office will be sending out instructions to all businesses to adjust their calendars accordingly and has banned all marches to do with Mayday - as there won't be one. The unions, who will be hit hard by this, have yet to respond, but a government spokeswoman said "I'm sure they will understand the reasons for this measure". George Bush has fully backed the proposal saying he would "take up the idea and run away with it."

This was, of course, an APRIL FOOL... Don't believe the media, be Indymedia

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Passionate Tellings of Truth...

It has been brought to our attention that some of the "facts" in the above stories may not represent the exact truth in all particular details. However, we have decided to leave them here for a little longer to see whether we can find out the truth. We will archive them in keeping with our commitments to Open Publishing (plus, if any of these things ever happen, we'll be ready).

Or as John Cleese, Minister of Silly walks put it: "A really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."