Surely The Police Have Better Things To Spend Their Time On Than This...

[Gromit]

The owners of a Cuban restaurant have accused the police of 'political censorship' after an officer gave them a dressing down over their flag of left-wing pin-up Che Guevara.

The couple behind ‘El Cuba Libre’ in Hyde, Greater Manchester, say they have been flying the iconic flag for five years, due to Guevara's link to the communist Caribbean country.

But they were bizarrely visited by a police licencing officer last week and told someone had complained about the image of the revolutionary leader. It is thought they took exception to Guevara's political views.

Police licensing officers advise pubs and the council on issues that could lead to revocation of their right to serve alcohol.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6535539/Cuban-restaurant-Manchester-told-Che-Guevara-flag.html

As a side note:
// A police force "fails to record over 38,000 reported crimes each year", a report has estimated.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was "under-recording too many reports of crime" including rape, violent crimes and sexual offences, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) said. //

// Police chiefs have been criticised over ‘unacceptable’ detection rates after it emerged that only 15 per cent of burglaries are being solved in Greater Manchester. Figures show that around a third of crimes are solved by GMP – but the detection rate is much lower for burglaries. //

[venator]

Let's wait until Comrade Corbyn becomes PM. It will be compulsory to disply Fidel and Che, along with comrade Putin and whoever's in favour in Venezuela....