The Labour Government

[Postman Pep]

It is a bit concerning that labour so early in this govt are seeking to solve 2 problems (fatties and assisted dying) with injections - it all seems a little 'dr mengele'. Having said that, if they come up with injections to reduce interest rates back to 0.5% and halve energy costs I'll be at the front of the queue

Nurse Ratched awaits syringe in hand

 

[True_Blue69]

May be ... just may be .... if people received a decent salary / level of benefits they wouldn't have to buy cheap crap food.

Not having that argument. You can eat healthily and cheaply of you can be arsed shopping and actually cooking the food. People are more bothered about convenience and shoving takeaways, chocolate, fizzy drinks and other crap into their body.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Mental health patients in hospital are going to get Employment Advisors mithering them and messing about with CV's while I'm hospital.

Mental health patients could get job coach visits, says minister

Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall says trials of the idea have produced "dramatic results".

www.google.com

Seems we've gone full Tory lite.

 

[Brewster's millions]

I think the Tory approach would be to cut the benefits of the fatties so they can't afford to eat? - giving out injections smells too much like free medical care.

Big welfare cuts coming next week.

 

[threespires]

Will Jenny have her nun's uniform on? Asking for a friend...

Haha, the contrast between her nuns habit and the bit of cloth she had on in Logan's Run always makes me smile.

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Sounds like something Michael Gove would come up with.

Unsurprising. Streeting seems to have the same weirdo vibe and completely delusional view of his own rightness and righteousness that Gove had.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Not having that argument. You can eat healthily and cheaply of you can be arsed shopping and actually cooking the food. People are more bothered about convenience and shoving takeaways, chocolate, fizzy drinks and other crap into their body.

It’s almost as if they’ve never been taught to budget or cook.

 

[Vic]

Mental health patients in hospital are going to get Employment Advisors mithering them and messing about with CV's while I'm hospital.

Mental health patients could get job coach visits, says minister

Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall says trials of the idea have produced "dramatic results".

www.google.com

Seems we've gone full Tory lite.

Or we check the evidence from trials:

"This is for people with serious mental health problems," she said. "And the results of getting people into work have been dramatic, and the evidence clearly shows that it is better for their mental health."

 

[bluenova]

May be ... just may be .... if people received a decent salary / level of benefits they wouldn't have to buy cheap crap food.

I'd agree that it would help, but even a total transformation of the country's wealth distribution (which is a huge task in itself), wouldn't come close to ending obesity. There is certainly a link between crap food and obesity, but it's not always the cheapest option (as pious Tories will regularly point out), and even where calories are cheap, it's much more complex - people aren't buying chocolate just because it's cheaper than an apple. There are much more complex issues and causes for obesity.

 

[bluenova]

Mental health patients in hospital are going to get Employment Advisors mithering them and messing about with CV's while I'm hospital.

Mental health patients could get job coach visits, says minister

Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall says trials of the idea have produced "dramatic results".

www.google.com

Seems we've gone full Tory lite.

Probably channelling that Tory fucker Nye Bevan, who thought the NHS would save the country money on benefits, and ensure people were healthy enough to work.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

Or maybe even stout.
I think Mel Smith did a sketch on
"Not The Nine O'clock News" when he played a darts player called "Fat Belly Gut Bucket '" where he was a member of The Stout Party !!

We would than have music by "Overweight Larry's Band", and what about all the ladies named Fatima, now known as Plus-Sizeima or Obese-ima?