Jo Bromilow – Liberal Candidate

A Liberal Occasion candidate within the Blue Mountains has been caught out utilizing a generic inventory picture of an aged couple to make a degree about native residents.

Jo Bromilow — the native Liberal candidate for Ward 2 Blue Mountains took to Fb earlier this week to debate the difficulty of aged long-term residents being unable to downsize their houses and due to this fact having to depart the realm.

“They’re compelled to maneuver away from their household and buddies, their help providers, their favorite shops and the realm they love. Why? The present Council doesn’t care about you in the event you can’t keep in your common sized property, they aren’t considering choices on your life-style. We’re,” she wrote alongside an image of an aged couple.

When requested if the image — which may be very clearly a inventory picture — was of a neighborhood couple, Bromilow asserted that “sure they’re”. Nonetheless, a fast reverse picture search makes it clear that the photograph is a part of a inventory picture collection on Alamy — and can set you again a cool $14.99 for private use.

Picture: Twitter – Preston Towers

Naturally, social media customers had been fast to note that the image is a inventory picture, and used this as a chance to take the joke to the following degree.

For starters, someone discovered one other photograph from the senior couple finance collection, through which they appear far much less depressing — thus giving Bromilow’s story a cheerful ending.

And we merely can’t discuss aged folks turning into meme fodder with out speaking about everybody’s favorite inventory photograph meme man — Harold, who we will solely assume is a Blue Mountains resident.

It’s unclear the place the aged couple within the photograph collection are from, so we will’t precisely say that Jo Bromilow is mendacity when she stated they’re Blue Mountains residents. Nonetheless, the photographer of the inventory photograph collection — Ian Allenden — is a UK native, so both they’re an aged British couple, or these Blue Mountains residents are a scorching commodity within the inventory photograph modelling trade.

The publish remains to be reside on the time of publishing however feedback have been restricted. Junkee has reached out to Jo Bromilow’s workplace for remark.