They certainly enjoy sounding off and feeling righteous, as well as plugging their books or TV series. But there's deep joy among such people in being allowed to order the lives of others, usually to their detriment.
The point of these taxes is not for the benefit of the poor, it is their impoverishment and immiseration. For Dimblebut it is also the age old practice of talking down to the poor - Orwell pointed this out in "The Road to Wigan Pier" :
"I have heard a Communist speaker on the platform grow very angry about it. In London, he said, parties of Society dames now have the cheek to walk into East End houses and give shopping-
lessons to the wives of the unemployed. He gave this as an instance of the mentality of the English governing class. First you condemn a family to live on thirty shillings a week, and then you have the damned impertinence to tell them how they are to spend their money. " - Chapter 6
Strange, isn’t it, when information about nutrition is probably the best and most available it’s ever been, that so many people eat themselves sick and fat? You can’t legislate against stupidity.
It's not the public that needs dealing with though is it CS? It's the food processing companies and their tailoring their of foods to make them addictive.
They certainly enjoy sounding off and feeling righteous, as well as plugging their books or TV series. But there's deep joy among such people in being allowed to order the lives of others, usually to their detriment.
The point of these taxes is not for the benefit of the poor, it is their impoverishment and immiseration. For Dimblebut it is also the age old practice of talking down to the poor - Orwell pointed this out in "The Road to Wigan Pier" :
"I have heard a Communist speaker on the platform grow very angry about it. In London, he said, parties of Society dames now have the cheek to walk into East End houses and give shopping-
lessons to the wives of the unemployed. He gave this as an instance of the mentality of the English governing class. First you condemn a family to live on thirty shillings a week, and then you have the damned impertinence to tell them how they are to spend their money. " - Chapter 6
"Henry Dimbleby"
Already laughing.
Strange, isn’t it, when information about nutrition is probably the best and most available it’s ever been, that so many people eat themselves sick and fat? You can’t legislate against stupidity.
I suggest you do some reading before you judge - Try "Hooked" by Michael Moss, which won the Pullitzer Prize..
I care about how many fat people there are. More hypertension, diabetes and sleep apnoea burdening the NHS. Surely that’s worth trying to address?
The net cost of obesity to the public services is actually very small: https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Obesity-and-the-Public-Purse-PDF.pdf
In any case, there are better ways of making Britain's healthcare service more efficient that don't involve regulating the public.
It's not the public that needs dealing with though is it CS? It's the food processing companies and their tailoring their of foods to make them addictive.
That would involve politicians cracking down on ultra-processed food, so will never happen