Copies of the Nottingham Post begin appearing on lamp posts

Copies of the Nottingham Post have begun to appear on lamp posts across the UK after the Reform UK leader of Nottinghamshire County Council banned the newspaper from speaking to him or any of his councillors.

Dubbed ‘Operation Cry Baby’, the movement has seen hundreds of copies across the country being tied to lamp posts, bridges and flagpoles in retaliation to Mick Barton’s ban. 

“Maybe it’s just me, but I thought Reform loved banging on about free speech,” said Nottingham local Simon Williams, founder of Operation Cry Baby.

“We thought if there’s so many St George’s flags being put up on lamp posts, then why not copies of the Nottingham Post? The best part is they can’t take them down because otherwise they’d be accused of attacking free speech.

“Better still, the paper has a circulation of about 3,000, so even if they do take them down we’ve got plenty to put back up.

“We’ve also made sure to display the page about the two Reform UK councillors telling people at a public surgery they’d be suspended from their county council group if they didn’t vote for Mick Barton’s preferred local government reorganisation model.

“You know, because nothing says ‘free speech’ like forcing people to do exactly what you want.”

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