Rochdale trading standards office has revealed it has been inundated with complaints about retailers desperate to begin selling their Christmas wares. 

Officer Colin McNigelson told the Herald that this past weekend has seen complaints about pre-Christmasization increase 200% on last year. 

“This time of year traditionally sees the capitalist bastards on the high street try to jump the gun and start fleecing us early. But the anti-Pre-Christmas act of 1995 was introduced to stop them using the word Christmas in advertising, or playing the bloody annoying songs until the 1st of November. Obviously they don’t like that.”

“We’ve had complaints about shopping malls setting up ‘Autumn Fairy Grottos’ where the kids can visit the head Fairy, a fat man with a beard in a red suit, and get a present.