Gammon Verify 🐖✅: Was the Night Czar right about 24-hour London?

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Hello, I’m Charlotte Gill - and I’m a disinformation correspondent at Gammon Verify, a new service for deplorables.

Here we’ll be bringing you the latest updates from the frontline of the disinformation wars.

This week the Gammon Verify Team came across one of the most shocking pieces of disinformation to date.

On March 3, 2024, London's Night Czar Amy Lamé made a series of claims that Gammon Verify has now inputted into its reality matrix.

Gammon Verify can reveal it has found at least three pieces of disinformation in Lamé’s interview on BBC London.

Claim 1: “The mayor and I have been focused on stemming [nightlife] closures”

Using a google search, Gammon Verify was able to confirm that the number of nightclubs in London has almost halved in the past decade – suggesting that there has been no such stemming, with our synonym synthesiser offering “hemorrhage” as the most accurate replacement word.

Claim 2: We are helping venues to “not just survive but thrive”

A high-tech investigation of Home Office figures shows that in three months during 2023, 756 hospitality venues closed down. Using a calculator, Gammon Verify was able to conclude that this means there are fewer venues than before, and that they have not even survived, meaning that they have not thrived.

Claim 3: “We [London] are a truly 24 hour city”

Gammon Verify was able to find no evidence of London being a “truly 24 hour city” when cross-checking its pub abstraction machine. Gammon Verify was also able to locate personal testimonies of not being able to get a pint.

In the coming days, Gammon Verify plans to do its own fieldwork to check these claims and will report back in the most complex stage of its investigation yet.