Now junior staff are used for propaganda

Devious & Secretive Fire & Rescue Service is always redacting the names of junior staff in documents requested under freedom of information legislation. They say this is to protect their personal data. Yet it now seems they are quite happy to use their images and voices, which are pretty personal to most people, to spin dangerous cuts in their latest video on social media.

I suppose it is the uproar, as the public begin to realise that D&SF&RS management is misleading them with this consultation, that has prompted this latest shabby attempt to spin the cuts as improvements. They must think the public will be misled by a few faces from further down the service's career structure in to thinking that staff support these cuts. 

The reality is that the vast majority of Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service staff oppose these cuts. 

What induced them to take part in a propaganda video, which is effectively stabbing some of their colleagues in the back, I don't know. Especially as the proposals will also see hundreds of thousands of residents in Devon & Somerset face an increased risk to their lives. It does not matter if they were pressurised or did so voluntarily, it was very unfair of the service to put them in that position. 

So let us look at the claims in the video: