Saturday 5 January 2013

We're Not Being Utter Bastards To You, Honest

Speaking to the BBC, [former regional director of public health, Professor Gabriel Scally] said: "I don't think anyone in this country actually thinks that the food industry are the right people to decide what we should be eating."
Listen, you goggle-eyed closet Trot, food companies don't decide what we should be eating ... we do.

Some of the foodstuffs referred to by Andy Burnham have been on the market successfully for over 60 years. If we didn't choose to buy them, they would have ceased to exist long ago. Yet again, a professional finger-wagger attempts to pretend a policy isn't an attack on consumers and freedom of choice when it most definitely is.

Once that misdirection and spin is taken out of the equation, I reckon the public would overwhelmingly think that the person who buys the food should have far more say in deciding what they eat than some blinkered, hyperbole-spouting career politician from Liverpool.


13 comments:

Richard Evans said...

What he's really saying is the state should decide which foods are legal, and ration food for your own good.

Edgar said...

Other people being fat is not my problem. For all I know, it may not be theirs, either. Bullying bastards trying to control every aspect of my life ... now that is a problem.

George Speller said...

It's no good. I've got to use the f word again. Twice in 24 hours.

Fascists.

Ivan D said...

You are correct about Scally dick but this small minded control freak came out of the closet along time ago. He is a creature of the far left so believes he has a right to force everyone else to behave as he sees fit for what he deems to be their own good. Historically, he and his type have contributed nothing positive but our sick society has allowed him to sponge off our taxes for decades.



As for Burnham and for that matter Cameron, if we do add one law to the already bulging statute book, it should be to impose a condition that all standing for elected office should be able to demonstrate a minimum of 5 years experience working successfully in a non-political role. That would exclude most current MPs and also the likes of Scally on the grounds that he has never actually worked and that public health is indisputably political.

Longrider said...

Five years? Fifteen at the very least, preferably double that.

moonrakin said...

Andy effin Burnham ?


This shitweasel was making out that there wasn't a problem at Stafford NHS trust... and covering up for the murdering penpushers and actually promoting them to top NHS jobs as I understand it. Bet he doesn't go near Stafford.


Obviously missed out on the shame gene this boy - what a nauseating excuse for an oxygen thief.

Dick_Puddlecote said...

2013 has been one long nag so far. Even a Saturday doesn't give us a day off.

Dick_Puddlecote said...

Yes.

Dick_Puddlecote said...

He'd fare well in Pyongyang, for sure.

moonrakin said...

looks to me like he's lining up a slippery interview gambit for a potential parade of awkward questions about Stafford et al to me. a preemptive strike if you like. In the unlikely event the BBC grows a pair and asks him about Stafford - I can hear him protesting he's only there to talk about Sugar Puffs.

Ivan D said...

I was perhaps a bit conservative although I would be strict on "research" posts and non-jobs campaigning for "charities"

Ivan D said...

A quick count on the BBC website reveals 14 articles on obesity in the first 5 days of 2013. Chris Snowdon exposed the appalling bias that permeates the BBC's coverage a couple of days ago and we do seem to have reached the point at which its "journalists" are no longer even pretending to be impartial. If the BBC did not provide an uncritical open platform for the public health extremists, the UK would be a much happier place.

Geo said...

Every politician, local and national with a BMI greater than 25 should be sacked forthwith. What a bad example to show the children, giving the illusion that fatties can be successful.
All journalist and TV news presenters with a BMI greeter than 25 should be sacked forthwith.
Fat people, smokers and drinkers must be portrayed as losers, criminals, down and outs or simpletons in all books, tv drama and movies.