An award-winning first aid campaign flustered a north Kent MP this week, when he took offence to its hard hitting note.Which rather puzzled the St John’s Ambulance – especially when he announced his intention to raise questions in Parliament:
St John Ambulance used five images showing actors as corpses, to demonstrate scenarios where lives could have been saved by simple first aid.
But Dartford MP Gareth Johnson labelled one image as “distasteful in the extreme and arguably illegal.”
In a statement released on Wednesday January 26, Mr Johnson said: “Political lobbying should know that there is a line of decency that should not be crossed and I intend to raise this matter in the House of Commons tomorrow.Sadly for everyone, they stepped in and kindly explained to the man with the room temperature IQ that the pictures were posed by models, and not of actual dead people…
“St John’s Ambulance is a well-respected organisation and this has done it a disservice.”
After finding out that the image was part of a wider campaign, Mr Johnson told News Shopper: “Having discovered that it’s an actress I’m unlikely to raise it in the House of Commons, I don’t want to cause any further problems.”Clearly, yet another politician who never heard the adage ‘Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than open it and remove all doubt’.
Pity. Would have made for a most amusing Hansard entry.
"Arguably illegal"
ReplyDeleteA solicitor's reflex utterance during semi conscious phases; facilitating a cranial bypass.
" .. a line of decency that should not be crossed .."
ReplyDeleteI, probably in common with a number of others reading this post, would find the "Honourable " Member's record on Expense Claims to be of considerable interest ..
Given his prediliction for the moral highground ..
So will he campaign for the images on cigarette packs to be removed?
ReplyDeleteWill he be campaigning for total transparency from politicians of all stripes .. all the time .. no exceptions ?
ReplyDeleteMore faces than a feckin' dice ..
Reminds me of this gem;
ReplyDeleteLawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."
Captain Haddock, this one's a new boy. Maybe he's spent his first eight months trying to work out what he can get away with but at this stage he probably hasn't got much worth looking at. But any questions of honesty aside it shows that local parties still aren't selecting candidates for their intelligence. If I lived there I'd be telling the local CA that I'd like someone brighter than an eco-freindly bulb next time.
ReplyDelete"What a total and utter cock!"
ReplyDeleteIt just goes to show the low quality of person who seems to get through to MP level these days.
"So will he campaign for the images on cigarette packs to be removed?"
Good point! They aren't (allegedly) staged, are they?
"Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.""
:D
"If I lived there I'd be telling the local CA that I'd like someone brighter than an eco-freindly bulb next time."
Me too. But it's probably one of those 'vote for a donkey if it has the right colour rosette' places.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone...........expense scandals anyone? These MPs have some nerve. They should also investigate first of all.
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