Is it just me, or is anyone else getting fed up with the way that the local population; ie, members of the public, the Fire Brigade, Chief Police officers, MPs and anyone else given the chance, are bigging themselves up over this in that giving the impression that: a) how they all got together to overcome this disaster, and b) people elsewhere wouldn't have been able to.
As the son of a fire officer, yes. My father attended many large fires and other incidents during his career, but generally didn't speak about it very much. No disrespect is intended to anyone involved in the rescue and recovery operation; we hear and see so much about drunkenness and its attendant problems outside many of the UK's pubs today and it's particularly reassuring to see people helping each other in such distressing times, but this constant 'bigging up' of those involved is becoming a little tiresome.