For two weeks running council officials backed up by coppers have broken up campaigning stalls in the centre of Manchester. By an amazing coincidence the Tory party is due to hold its annual conference there in the first week of October.
Look at them, a murderous group of cut throats if ever you saw them. But our Brave Bobbies soon put a stop to their shennanigans!
... Suspicion of attempting to wield an opinion without a licence.
And they weren't the only group attacked.