Deal or no deal

An appalling government driven billboard ad has appeared in our town with the slogan 'Don't be a dealer'.

It portrays a hoodie wearing young person of indeterminate age, but looking around late teens or earlier twenties, shiftily passing over a supposedly illegal substance to some teens marginally younger than he.

The fact that tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds of tax-payers money has been skimmed off to front this ridiculous and misguided campaign is nauseating to me.

Here's just a taste why...

The 'illegal' substance in question is wait for it, heroin? Nope, cocaine, er, no have another go. Grass then surely? Wrong again, it that most evil and gateway drug ALCOPOPS. Orange flavoured Bacardi Breezer by the looks of it.

What it should have portrayed in my humble opinion, is the seedy, middle-aged men who hang around primary and secondary schools, making a living selling drugs to kids for chrissakes...to show a young person in a hoodie passing over a 4% alcoholic fruit drink, not only makes a laughing stock of more serious matters, but demonises all young people as being shifty and untrustworthy oh and evil beyond comprehension to boot.

What idiot in a suit thought this one up?