Conditionally Human

A Brighton paramedic has been putting the New New Labour policy on human rights into practice by withdrawing medical attention from a man who did not appear to merit it. The patient was badly overweight, in poor general health and lived alone in a house whose market value he had allowed to decline. The paramedic, who has a history of doing a wonderful job under difficult circumstances, told his younger colleague not to bother trying to save the non-utilisable human resource because it was "not a viable resuscitation". He has been jailed for a year for perverting the course of justice while not in possession of Ministerial office.