MICHAEL Gove, a man who spent a fair whack of last year travelling about in a bus promising £350 million a week for the NHS if the UK voted for Brexit, knows a thing or two about made-up nonsense.

Unfortunately, over the weekend he wasn’t able to spot some pretty obvious guff involving the good name of this fine organ.

Some Union-loving funster had mocked up a fake National front page, with the splash “MI5 vans spotted at polling stations”.

Just for the avoidance of any doubt, that wasn’t us.

We don’t know if MI5 vans were spotted at any polling stations. We’re pretty sure they weren’t. But even if they were, as one person helpfully pointed out on Twitter, they probably wouldn’t have MI5 written on the side.

The National:

Other hints that the picture might be a fake included the date on the masthead being Sunday’s, and also that it featured puffs for Kevin McKenna talking about living on Mars, Mhairi Black promising to batter Tories, and the Wee Ginger Dug calling for a knighthood for Alex Salmond.

Gove, however, was convinced.

Scotland’s leading comic is now clearly edited by guys in tinfoil hats and written in green ink #ScottishDelusionalParty” tweeted the former Education Secretary and failed Tory leadership candidate.

Despite plenty of others pointing out that it was a fake, Gove has yet to delete or apologise. One Twitter user replying to Gove wrote: “Hi Michael, I’m Nigerian minister of finance. your long-lost great uncle has died leaving you £10 trillion. Send your bank details.”