DUMB CIVIL SERVANTS OF THE WEEK: SATIRICAL POSTER PRINTED IN GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION
by Hazed
A magazine published by the UK’s civil service recently included some very unusual advice: it told parents that if they suspected their children had rabies, they should shoot them!
The information was contained in a poster that was added to an article about the history of government communications, in the current issue of Civil Service Quarterly, just as if it was a genuine piece of government advice. Of course, it wasn’t. It came from a satirical website called Scarfolk Council, which is about a made-up town which the author Richard Littler describes as “a dystopian satire of the 1970s that somehow leaks into and reflects on current affairs”.
Littler has no idea how the poster ended up in an official civil service magazine, but is clearly delighted.
