West Midlands Ambulance Service has defended asking staff to rate Hitler’s coolness in a survey, pointing out that the most evil man in history “galvanised a nation into doing something quite unusual.”
The survey, entitled “Making Mass Murder of the Sick Cool: How Emerging Leaders Wish To Be Managed And Supported”, was distributed to 4,000 members of staff, along with a cyanide gas cylinder for each ambulance.
A spokesman for the service later screamed at reporters: “The staff involved were not trying to cause offence to anybody. If they had, they wouldn’t have issued a questionnaire – they would simply have annexed A&E and overrun Birmingham City Hospital.”
"In discussing different styles of leadership, a survey which is one small part of the project sought to include an analysis of the dictatorial style,” he added. “With hindsight, it would have been better to have used a different example to illustrate this. Maybe Gordon Brown – whoops, sorry, he was in the survey too."
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