Emergency Services Plan Europe's Largest Disaster Exercise To Prepare For If Boris Johnson Becomes PM

Emergency Services In Europe's Largest Disaster Exercise To Prepare For If Boris Johnson Becomes PM
Evaluators on the roof of a container watch to see how members of the emergency services treat simulated casualties during an exercise run by the London Fire Brigade at a disused power station in east London, Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. The exercise involving the London emergency services is set around a building collapse onto a major London underground railway station. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Evaluators on the roof of a container watch to see how members of the emergency services treat simulated casualties during an exercise run by the London Fire Brigade at a disused power station in east London, Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. The exercise involving the London emergency services is set around a building collapse onto a major London underground railway station. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Emergency service agencies from across Britain launched the largest mock disaster scenario Europe has ever seen on Monday to prepare for the possibility of Boris Johnson ever becoming prime minister.

Despite the large scale of the drill, the organisers have jumped to quell any hysteria caused by the alarming images coming from the exercise.

"We want to ensure the British public that this is a case of being better safe than sorry," police spokesperson Linda Surname told HuffPost UK. "The actual event of Boris Johnson entering Number 10 is incredibly unlikely and we want to be clear that there is no cause for alarm."

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Hundreds of actors in devastating make up were drafted to set the scene at the drill, which hypothesised the possibility of the nation's collapse at the hands of the top Tory.

Ambulance crews have not been involved in the exercise to account for the likelihood of the NHS's disappearance with continued Conservative rule.

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