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Written by Uponnothing
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 15:28 |
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Another day, another pointless article bemoaning 'elf 'n' safety': Now strawberry picking faces health and safety threat. Naturally the headline on the front page of the Daily Mail website uses the classier Littlejohnism 'elf 'n' safety' to draw readers in, and naturally readers don't actually read the article they simply add mindless comments like:
Ah, what a good way to start the day, a good long laugh from the HSE zealots.
- paul, Milton Keynes, UK, 3/6/2009 13:03
H&S is a repressive regime that stifles the population and its freedoms, while serving to propogate the 'it's someone else's fault' mentality.
Still, it's re-assuring to know that while we have a 10% of chance of contracting life threatening MRSA while in hospital, at least we have been spared the prospect of serious injury while picking strawberries in Cornwall.
- paul, kingston, 3/6/2009 13:45
I wonder how pensioners will deal with this when health n safety morons ban them from using their allotments?
Oh well, not long to go till the next General Election
- Harry, London, 3/6/2009 13:15
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Written by Uponnothing
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Friday, 17 April 2009 07:44 |
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 The Daily Mail has a mocking attitude to health and safety, and embarrassingly (for a supposed mid-market paper) they are increasingly copying Richard Littlejohn's phonetic spelling of the phrase to belittle it. If any week can remind the public of the fundamental importance behind health and safety it is surely the week that has seen the 20 year anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster.
Those that try to make the world a safer place to live in have been described by the Daily Mail as 'stormtroopers', 'zealots', 'extremists' and the Daily Mail has run stories where Health and Safety inspectors have been the 'arch-villain'. When people do die in a pretty horrible accident, Health and Safety is still mocked by Mail readers. Even health and safety improvements for the new Wembley haven't escaped censure. The Daily Mail relishes the opportunity to wheel out examples of 'victims' of health and safety law; even running articles claiming the work place was a 'happier' place before health and safety: 'Life before elf 'n' safety: Rare images of a harsher, but arguably happier, Britain at work'. Today, however, they have fallen strangely quiet about health and safety with this story: Boy, 15, crushed to death by falling wall after being told to 'prop it up'.. For some reason the Daily Mail is not allowing comments on this article, and I think I know the reason why: |
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