The Mockney Twat.
TV chef Jamie Oliver has urged ministers to be “big and bold” by introducing a sugar tax on fizzy drinks.
Mr Oliver has been campaigning for the levy to be included in the forthcoming child obesity strategy.
He told MPs on the House of Commons’ Health Committee a tax would be the “single most important” change that could be made.
He said it would be “deeply symbolic” as well as raising money.
No, you piece of authoritarian scum. What we put into our bodies is our concern, not yours. Although, it would, indeed, be deeply symbolic. Symbolic of a nasty, puritan authoritarianism of the type you regularly espouse. Go fuck yourself and keep out of my business and my wallet, you disgusting piece of shit.
Ministers have indicated a tax will not be introduced…
For once, ministers are right.
…although Mr Oliver said he did not believe, from his discussions, that it had been “written off”.
Doubtless if Jezbollah gets into number ten, such nasty authoritarianism will, indeed, be dusted off.
It has been estimated a 20% sugar tax could raise up to a £1bn a year.
Not from me, it won’t. I’ll be nipping across the channel and stocking up on supplies from E. LeClerc’s in Calais.
But he said the most important reason for introducing a tax was the message it sent out.
The message it sends out is that you are an evil, interfering, prodnosed, busy-bodying, authoritarian, puritanical cunt.
He said: “We should be big and bold. Who is running the country? The businesses who are profiting from ill health or is it us?”
Not you and not the parasites in public health. As someone who votes, I want you to fuck off and leave me alone, because what I put into my body is none of your damned business.
The most nauseating thing about Oliver’s “campaign” is that he’s only doing it to drum up publicity for his f**king book.
He does it every year. Self centred bastard
I happen to use energy drinks because I take part in endurance sport events. The stuff that I use will probably go under the radar of the neo-puritans because I buy it in bulk in powder form. For things like long distance triathlons sugary drinks are pretty essential along with energy gels and carb-containing snack food. I couldn’t be further from the stereotyped fatty that these people think that they will be helping with this proposed tax, but if they pushed it through it would affect me anyway.
I can’t drink tea or coffee. These days I drink sugary drinks. As We’ve discussed here before, I’m slim and healthy. Frankly, I will refuse to pay this tax as mentioned in the post. I will not be dictated to by some self-righteous twat who thinks he can tell me what to eat and drink because he’s a sleb.
There’s a story going around that the people who burgled his house recently planned on taking everything – except his cook books!
Well, I don’t want them. I won’t watch the self-righteous fucker on the television, won’t buy his books and won’t set foot in one of his poncy restaurants, so I’ll be damned if I will put up with him telling me what to fucking drink.
Stupid Nasty Authoritarian Shit.
If you put a video of a dog’s bottom on telly once a week – after a month the dog would be a celebrity opening supermarkets (£1000+exes a pop) and endorsing doggy food and paraphernalia.
That guy is the validation of my hypothesis.
Here in New Zealand we have the same anti sugar campaign going on. If there is a problem with child obesity it is because the little darlings are eating too much and not exercising. It is easier to campaign for a sugar tax than to educate people to feed their children properly.
I think we should not impose a tax on sugar. We should put restrictions on daytime TV instead, upon which Mr Oliver and his ilk spend far too much of their time. All TV programmes screened between 07:30 and 17:30 should be pay per view with 50% of the take going direct to the exchequer. Anything screened from 17:30 to 20:00 should attract half that amount, with programmes from 20:00 to 23:00 being tax free. What this will do is get the potatoes off the couch and onto the Interweb or outdoors where they can either exercise their brains or bodies to burn off all those extra calories.
I would also like to see a sponsored ‘Pot a Pundit’ contest, where Jamie Oliver and his authoritarian kind of Sleb would be loaded onto a catapult at a clay shoot. This would attract a premium rate on pay per view and give the British Olympic Clay pigeon shooting team some much needed target practice.
What a publicity-seeking hypocrite* Mr. Oliver is.
Humans are not identical clones of each other. The more muscle mass you have, for example, the more work your body has to do just to maintain itself, which is why a professional athlete can put away well over 6000 calories per day, easily, without ending up looking like Johnny Vegas.
A professional couch potato, on the other hand, could balloon in size on less than the farcically pointless “Recommended Daily Allowance” printed on the side of a packet of cereal.
What’s needed is education. Not just on nutrition, but on how dependent we are on balancing our intake with our expenditure. In fact, a single class on general economics would be useful. The same basic design pattern applies across a number of fields. Not got much bandwidth? Guess you’re not going to be watching many 4K-resolution videos on YouTube then. Not got much money? Try earning more of it, and / or not spending as much. Storing way too much fat for the winter? Try working it off with some exercise. Etc.
They’re all basically the same rule despite it wearing different hats. If the state really wanted to save money on teaching our kids, it could do a lot worse than comb through the entire curriculum to find such common patterns and teach those together.
* (Seriously, have you *seen* him lately? Look at clips of some of his earliest shows and it’s clear this is not a man who believes in practicing what he preaches.)
“Humans are not identical clones of each other. The more muscle mass you have, for example, the more work your body has to do just to maintain itself, which is why a professional athlete can put away well over 6000 calories per day, easily, without ending up looking like Johnny Vegas.”
Absolutely, you should see the recommended daily doses of carbs, protein and fat in triathlon training manuals. It’s a challenge to get it all down and once you start training in earnest you still lose weight. Incidentally I believe that Gordon Ramsey is an ironman.
To be fair, the little cockney shit has been out of the limelight for a while…
Have you noticed that the things which are allegedly bad for you – tobacco, sugar, coffee, alcohol, salt – are the commodities traditionally used as de facto money when a fiat currency goes belly-up? Might be an idea to have an emergency stash.
I agree with all you say but there is an additional problem. If sugar becomes more expensive then many more people will switch to drinks and other food containing artificial sweeteners.
Have a look at their side-effects especially, but not only, aspartame.
I stopped drinking the stuff and immediately lost my cravings for sweet foods, bread and even more aspartame. I started losing weight, my psoriasis cleared up, I stopped having swollen ankles, dizzy spells, blurred vision and my tinnitus declined substantially. I felt 100% healthier in days.
If anyone is using artificial sweeteners regularly then try stopping at least for a while. You might be surprised by the improvements, even in health conditions you wouldn’t have suspected had any connection to diet.
I’m all for people having the choice of what to consume, I’m also all for people having the information about possible consequences of different choices.
More a case of do as I say, not as I do.
This is a link to a recent article highlighting the fact the Jamie Oliver ready meals do not detail the sugar content. A spokesperson says concerned customers’ can request the full nutritional information.
Ain’t anywhere on the web.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3220666/Jamie-Oliver-criticised-declared-war-sugary-drinks-food-left-sugar-content-meals-menus.html
And this one’s quite old but also points out that our James produces some pretty horrid FRESH stuff.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9750464/Jamie-and-Nigellas-meals-unhealthy.html