There is one really useful aspect of social media that isn’t really fully appreciated. It shows up all those politicians who lack any kind of judgment.
The latest example is Rosemary Healy, the Labour councillor in Nottingham who shared on social media a parody of the Conservative Party poster that replaced a benign image of a road (since discovered to be in Germany) heading into distant hills with the train line leading to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
She has since been suspended by the Labour Party and says she hadn’t spotted what was actually on the image before hitting the ‘share’ button.
It appears that her eagerness to slur the opposition completely overrode any kind of common sense – and who would want to be represented by a politician who behaves like this?
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