More fuzzy-headed finger-wagging from Labour's resident health cockmonger, Alan Johnson, the holier-than-thou guy who brought you such gems as "denormalisation of smokers" and "the effect of the smoking ban on pubs has been largely positive".
Smokers have long warned that alcohol and 'non-approved' foods would be next, but it is startling how swiftly these swivel-eyed freaks have shifted focus. Only last week Johnson was donning his pinny and nannying on the evils of small quantities of alcohol along with the BMI-challenged Liam Donaldson. Now he is wheeled out (presumably because it would be laughable to see Donaldson doing it) to herald Labour measures designed to restrict how much chocolate and fizzy drinks your family should eat.
The Government is set to order manufacturers to shrink the size of chocolate bars and fizzy drinks.
Health Secretary Alan Johnson will tell firms such as Mars, Coca-Cola, Britvic and Nestlé that smaller versions of their products should be available in all garages and corner shops to help stop people piling on weight.
Isn't this a laughable waste of Johnson's time, and subsequently, our money? Surely if a consumer wishes to buy a lot of chocolate, or a large quantity of pop, they will just buy two of the smaller product size instead. Unless Labour are planning on forcing the public to comply (Would you put it past them? No, me neither, they have past form).
While many companies have invested in low sugar options, the sugar content of normal food and drink should also be cut and not just replaced with artificial sweeteners, Mr Johnson will tell the businessmen. Consumer tastes are changing and people want healthier foods, which has to be good for business, Mr Johnson will argue.
I think businesses know what the public want, Johnson. In fact, I would guess that they might have invested a not insubstantial sum researching their market. Properly, without fixing the results as your group of illiberal fantasists tend to do. If the manufacturers had got their figures wrong and misunderstood their customers, as you claim, they would be suffering financially (like the pubs that your bent statistics and lies have destroyed). The fact that the companies you are targeting here are doing very well, thank you, suggests that you are waffling out of your idealistic ringpiece.
If tastes are changing and "people want healthier foods", the market will adjust and provide for them. As such, it is none of your fucking business which size packets/bottles are produced. Just the fact that you have put this deluded guff on general press release illustrates again that you are a lying, dictatorial shitstick. Is there anyone left in the Labour party who isn't?
Oh yeah, and Johnson, is the effect on pubs still "largely positive" now it has increased to 39 closures a week? See the picture at the top of this article? That's you, that is. A supersize, weapons grade one at that.
Via Taking Liberties
