pablomorgan
Well-known member
THREE councillors have apologised today for making jokes about swine flu as their authority battled to deal with two confirmed cases of the disease.
South Gloucestershire Council upheld a complaint that members ? including one who represented the ward where a school was shut because of the outbreak ? abused its email system by swapping gags last Friday afternoon.
An outraged, unnamed South Gloucestershire resident forwarded the emails ? sent by councillors Janet Biggin, Justin Howells and Peter Tyzack ? to a local newspaper.
The emails contained four jokes about swine flu, as council staff, doctors and nurses dealt with the two confirmed infections.
One email, sent by Ms Biggin, read: ?This one I had by email yesterday - heard by a friend on a train. Wait for it ... I think I?ve got swine flu - I?ve come out in a rasher.?
Battling
Another of the jokes included an image of cartoon characters Winnie the Pooh and Piglet.
As the councillors joked, the authority was battling to deal with the closure of Downend School, which is run by the authority, after a 12-year-old Year 7 pupil contracted the disease while on holiday in Mexico.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2415166.ece
South Gloucestershire Council upheld a complaint that members ? including one who represented the ward where a school was shut because of the outbreak ? abused its email system by swapping gags last Friday afternoon.
An outraged, unnamed South Gloucestershire resident forwarded the emails ? sent by councillors Janet Biggin, Justin Howells and Peter Tyzack ? to a local newspaper.
The emails contained four jokes about swine flu, as council staff, doctors and nurses dealt with the two confirmed infections.
One email, sent by Ms Biggin, read: ?This one I had by email yesterday - heard by a friend on a train. Wait for it ... I think I?ve got swine flu - I?ve come out in a rasher.?
Battling
Another of the jokes included an image of cartoon characters Winnie the Pooh and Piglet.
As the councillors joked, the authority was battling to deal with the closure of Downend School, which is run by the authority, after a 12-year-old Year 7 pupil contracted the disease while on holiday in Mexico.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2415166.ece