Recruitment firm Westaff have apparently ordered Father Christmas to say "ha ha ha" instead of the deeper, less friendly "ho ho ho" because the latter might be more frightening to children.
He's also not allowed to have children sitting on his knee in case he gets allegations of child abuse. What would happen if we put Santa in jail - there'd be no-one to deliver Christmas presents!



Is it me or has this world gone completely insane? The Conservatives would do well to promise an end to lunacies such as this imho!

Please execute everyone involved in this story. ;)

Though born in Britain, I grew up in Switzerland. If you want to see a terrifying Santa, folks, go there and ask for ‘Schmutzli’!

Truly, if kids can’t even handle ‘ho ho ho’ from a rosy cheeked bearded fellow these days, I’m not sure how it is supposed to be that all the computer gaming is turning them into amoral, brain-dead killing machines.
But hey, what do I know…



Though I’d love to see an end to this type of nonsense, frankly, what should the Tories do? Do we really want them dictating company policy regarding corporate Santa behaviour? Wouldn't that constitute yet more intervention? Sounds more like Brownite micromanagement to me….

Yeah - well - who knows what goes on in these 'grottos'?!

HO HO HO

I agree with less state intervention in general - but THIS is loony, loopy and ludicrous and needs sorting out - wouldn't you agree phantom?

Of course most people see these precautions as insane but we have brought it on ourselves by making huge financial claims on companies and councils. Encouraged by lawyers we have got greedy and grown to think that if anything happens it must be someone else's fault never our own. The news media has the same attitude, as soon as something happens they always rush to blame someone, usually someone in authority we seem to have lost the ability to accept that most people do the best they can and that occasionally they make a mistake.Think back to the news stories over recent months, McCanns,community support officers, deaths of fire fighters etc there's no end to it. The other big factor is the News media are constantly giving us a false picture of safety in UK. We live in the second safest country in the world for children and yet we are led to believe that our children are in constant danger. Parents are terrified, not only have they a distorted picture of danger but they expect it to such an extent that schools etc have to protect themselves against these parents looking for danger. Even DC has played on these fears when it suits his political advantage so I don't know how the Tories are going to stop it

I think the press is to blame for exaggerating these so-called 'political correctness gone mad' stories.
I don't doubt that there are a few lunatics coming up with barmy proposals but these people are in the minority and have no real impact whatsoever.
Some of the more bizarre health and safety stuff has nothing to do with political correctness-it's all about the possibility of legal action being taken if some old dear gets hit by an exploding Christmas tree light or something.

Yeah well, time to BAN the evil twit anyway for misreprenting and corrupting the Christmas message.

YEAH!! Everybody knows that Santa's just another illegal immigrant who flouts our passport controls every year as well as bringing strange animals across our borders with goodness knows what diseases!!!

AND he's notorious for breaking and entering!!

Oh and as far as workforce exploitation goes, GAP have nothing on Santa!!

Uh oh - does that mean I'm in the naughty book now...?

and just out of interest, doesn't Satan himself say Ha Ha Ha as he plunges you into eternal torment? Nice, warm and friendly?? Hmmmm

Curiously enough, Czech and Slovak tradition has the devil accompanying St Nicholas on his deliveries...

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Can I do the "Dyslexic Devil Worshipper" joke now? ;-)

I think I am going to cry!