April Fool's Day is cancelled this year

I often try to post an April fool on the morning of 1st April, but how can anyone top the things which are happening for real?

The entire country under what I call lockdown and Jim calls House Arrest - and polls suggest that 86% of us support it.

Some polls find that the politician who has impressed most in the current crisis is a newly appointed chancellor who was a junior housing minister less than two years ago (when I met him in that role I was impressed and thought he would go far, though I had no idea how far how fast.)

A recently re-elected Conservative government which had obtained the first Conservative landslide some Mrs Thatcher's time 32 years before against a hard-left led Labour party has now shut down large parts of the economy and effectively nationalised other parts while spending so much money as to make Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell look like Norman Tebbit by comparison.

The former first minister of one of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom is acquitted of criminal charges in a case in which his defence team argued in court that parts of the senior leadership of the government and party he used to head have conspired to frame him.

Church services, practically all sporting fixtures, and many features of normal life are cancelled.

How can you think of April Fool stories which beat this?

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