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General_Strike
So, I was curious what would happen with that rat story. I've seen about three or four of those over the years and it's become established as one of those long-running stories people love because they seem to confirm urban myths that somehow they just want to be true. I mean, everything's getting bigger and better all the time, so why not rats, too?
I've been following this for some time and wanted to see what would happen upon posting it here. I'm mainly interested in this sort of story because of its capacity to obliterate other news stories. When I saw it yesterday, I thought of it as a dead rat version of a dead cat story. A much more important piece of news had been posted just before then, about the death of a woman on foot in Mitcham. The rat story commanded all the attention after that. While the Guardian didn't cover the rat story, their piece on why the story is fake was the most-read story on the Guardian web-site yesterday whenever I looked (a couple of times).
So, was there a conspiracy? After all, the debate on Caroline Lucas' NHS Re-instatement Bill could have been quite important. The news of the filibustering was still reported, but attention would have been diverted away from it almost completely. (Oddly enough, I still can't find a story about it on the Guardian site.)
A good way of burying unwelcome news/scandalous behaviour in Parliament?