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THE SICKEST game of 1982 was banned today after it was attacked by Prince Charles as 'an insult to the heroes of this country'.

Last night shellshocked store managers were removing the game from the shelves of department stores up and down the country.

MPs were preparing to ask the Home Secretary how a game which vilifies some of the bravest men this country has ever seen got into production.

Last night reporters from this paper bought one of the vile compendiums at Harrods, the top people's store. The game is called Monopoly and it has brought outrage from relatives of some of the property developers who gave their fortunes in the service of the country. In the game young children are invited to play at being property developers. They are insultingly represented by symbols such as an old boot or a by toff's top hat. At the throw of the dice they land on -and buy - whole areas of London with a few thousand pounds.

The developers are then forced to proceed round the to sell their houses and hotels.

It is this that has caused leading property developers to protest to the government that their worst nightmares are made jest of. Harold Wilson has threatened to sue. 'It was land reclamation' , he said. 'And it wasn't Whitechapel'.

Former executives of Slater Walker enterprises, many of whom have firsthand knowledge of Hong Kong prisons, have demanded an inquiry into how 'Go To Jail' cards have been included in the pack.

The son of one leading magnate said, 'I bought the game for my family thinking it was about oil fields. I was sickened at what I found inside. Fortunes are wiped out in the wink of an

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• Soçjalişı Organiser, Thursday Ngvember 26, 1981. Page 4

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board paying 'rent' to their competitors. If they can't pay, the bank forces them