Another piece of "Health and Safety" idiocy

The Mail reports that:

"Police, firemen and paramedics refused to go to the aid of an accident victim who was drowning in just 18 inches of water... because they believed it was too dangerous.

A senior fire officer banned his men from using ropes and ladders to climb down a 15ft bank to the victim after carrying out a ‘risk assessment’.

Acting on advice, ten police officers who attended the emergency also failed to rescue father-of-three Karl Malton, 32, as he lay face down in the shallow water.

His body lay there for three hours after a decision was made to send for a ‘water rescue team’ based more than 50 miles away.

When relatives arrived at the scene, they found emergency workers standing around drinking tea.

An inquest into Mr Malton’s death yesterday heard that officers no longer have to swim or receive life-saving training."

For heaven sake these are "emergency services" and they now cannot go down a 15 foot bank with an 18 inch body of water at the bottom. So t appears that the emergency services stood and drank tea as a man lay in water, possibly dying; how reassuring, how modern, how Labour Britain. 12 years of Labour rule and this country has lost track of its basic values. This is madness, absolute madness; this country has to get its collective sanity back and soon or we are totally finished.