Saturday 7 March 2009

Then They Came For The Fatties ...


Like drugs, mild forms of Righteousness soon lead to the hard stuff.

A GP has called for a tax on chocolate to tackle Scotland’s obesity and diabetes epidemic, it emerged last night.

Dr David Walker wants the price of chocolate bars, boxes, biscuits and cakes increased to discourage people from gorging themselves and putting their health at risk.

Dr Walker has been urging his patients at Airdrie Health Centre in Lanarkshire to limit their intake of chocolate for years, and was prompted to act following the launch of the SNP’s radical proposals to tackle alcohol misuse.


Now, hands up who really believed they would stop at smokers?




6 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

What I'd like to see is an unholy alliance of size zero models and fat people telling the government to get stuffed.

SaltedSlug said...

Fuck me. Ignoring some self-righteous cock telling others how to live their lives, has anyone been to Glasgow? You go to a chippie and ask for a slice of pizza, and they stick it in the fucking deep-fat fryer. Tax chocolate to reduce fatties? they may as well tax sharp sticks in Mogadishu as a means of reducing violence.

Martin said...

I think it's an excellent idea. Fat arses cost more to the NHS so should pay more, right?

Futhermore, I think we should tax anorexics for the food that they don't eat. Yes, makes perfect sense.

Bunch of cunts.

Gawain Towler said...

Easter to be banned

banned said...

As a smoking, drinking slim person I say " TAX The Fat Cunts Till They Squeal And Then Some More "

Abduct their children to secure Local Authority crack houses, free their wives to a lifetime of quality assured shoplifting and sell their parents to an abusive regime in private old folks homes.

Neal Asher said...

Tea and coffee next? I mean you can drink more coffee than is healthy so look forward to a future of it being sold in one spoonful blister packs of which you can only buy a certain number a week. Damn, I should write science fiction.