Sleeping policewoman

It's as if the Met is trying to let the PM off the hook

How long would it take you to read 500 pages and look at 300 photos? For work, I mean? I reckon I could do it in a morning. Maybe I might need an hour after lunch as well. If you're a Met police team, apparently it takes weeks.

It was a brilliant tactic by the Met: put your most inoffensive, drippy-looking officer on the TV news to make the ludicrous claim that 500 pages ("a ream and a half" -- oh, God, not a whole ream and a half!) and 300 photos represents a lot of work, and it will take the viewer several moments to register what a disgracefully disingenuous claim it is. In fact I expect many viewers who for some reason trust the Met accepted it without stopping to think about how laughable it was.

Q How long does it take the Met to do a tiny amount of work?

A Just long enough to let the PM get away with it.