The excrescent Jamie Oliver is whining that his planned BOGOF ban is being ditched. And so it should.
Jamie Oliver has blasted Boris Johnson over the decision to bin a ban on buy-one-get-one-free offers for unhealthy foods as a ‘wasted opportunity’ to tackle obesity.
The celebrity chef joined health campaigners who have criticised the Government after it delayed a ban on two-for-one offers on unhealthy and fattening foods.
Oliver said a ban on TV junk food adverts before a 9pm watershed, which has been put on hold for a year, was key to protecting child health.
Ministers have said they are also deferring the ban on buy-one-get-one-free deals for foods and drinks high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) in England for 12 months so they can review the impact on family budgets in the face of the cost-of-living crisis.
The move has been welcomed by the industry and by some Tory MPs opposed to the state interfering in how people spend their money, but it has alarmed health campaigners.
Given that no one voted for this pompous poltroon, he should be ignored. If he wants to stand for parliament and put his manifesto before the electorate, all well and good. Until then, he has no business banning anything. Like so many of these celebrities, he is a deeply nasty authoritarian who thinks it is his place to tell the rest of us what to do. Well, it isn’t and he can BOGOF.
Mr Oliver tweeted: ‘We know there’s a vital need to protect child health and make sure the next generation doesn’t suffer from diet-related disease. Policies like restricting junk food advertising to kids are crucial for levelling up and popular with the public.
In which case, they will vote for you, won’t they?
‘This is a wasted opportunity and it starts to erode the whole obesity strategy – which at some point looked progressive and world-leading written down, but is falling apart when it comes to acting on these policies.
‘Parents and kids don’t want to hear any more excuses from the Government. I really hope the Prime Minister @BorisJohnson proves me wrong and shows real leadership to give young people a healthier and fairer future’.
We do not need an obesity strategy. What we eat and what parents feed their children is no business of the government and even less that of Jamie Oliver.
He’s expecting Boris Johnson to show some leadership? Has he just arrived from another planet?
Perpetually
“We know there’s a vital need to protect child health and make sure the next generation doesn’t suffer”
You mean like insisting that they are forcibly injected with the mRNA “vaccine” when their chances of dying from Covid is so remotely possible as to be non existent?
It seems that what is healthy and good for the population depends on the particular axe you are grinding.
‘Twas always thus….
Entirely predictable stuff from the fat mockney twat. At least every other year he launches into some public health crusade around this time of the year, followed in early October by a repeat of his whinging, but with a conveniently timed book released to scoop up all those Christmas gift sales, plus another of his tedious TV series also banging the same drum.
That is how he’s built his fortune… selling his shitty books to people who can’t think of anything else to gift at Christmas, which are then stuffed on bookshelves with love by the recipients and never read ever again.
Jamie Oliver should bog off himself. Anytime you watch these sleb chefs on TV or read recipies it’s constant drench, marinade, slather with oil/fat. Do something then add more oil/fat. Plate uo and add more oil/fat
A BOGOF on Chicken Kieves is not unhealthy, I don’t eat the free one with paid for one, it’s another meal, same with others. It’s over-eating that’s unhealthy and makes one fat – we see the poor sarving fat people on news every day.
As for “unhealthy”: what about all those oily fish we’re urged to eat? Red Traffic lights on 3 or 4 out 4 signals
Now over to laughing time:
Sigh
“It’s over-eating that’s unhealthy and makes one fat…”
Not if you do lots of exercise. When some women at work were fretting about their various diet plans I showed them the chapter on nutrition in an ironman training manual. Minimum quantities of fat, protein and carbohydrates to cram down.
Mice aren’t a problem now as we have…cats. Millie is quite old and not really effective any more. Max is basically a serial killer.
Oily fish is part of the recommended diet for diabetics.
If you do exercise, physical work more calories burned. However, if you overeat, you’ll still get fat – eg Tyson Fury
We had cats pre-fridges, silly comment
Oily Fish is ‘junk food’ by the Gov’t traffic light classification, as is cheese
Bernard Levin used to warn us of the Single Issue Fanatics because life is a series of trade offs – and one size does not necessarily fit all.
I suspect it would be useful to establish a collective term for all those fanatics who would exhort us, and the government of the day, to do things their way. Courtesy of Phil B above I’d suggest ‘axe grinders’. It captures the unrelenting nature of their actions to produce something divisive and anti democratic.
…and there’s always another axe.
@Discovered Joys
or “Worshippers”, because the Single Issue seems to fill the God shaped hole in their minds and gives them a reason to exist.
Until the “single issue” gets essentially fixed, as with “teh gayers” in which case the campaign group has to invent some separate but associated issue to bang on about (i.e. “teh trannies”).
Where’s that multi-person gallows when you need it?
@John Galt “Where’s that multi-person gallows when you need it?”
It is called a tree. Plenty of them about that need decorated with politicians, “scientists” and other assorted riff raff. You’d run out of politicians etc. long before you’d run out of trees.
“silly comment”
It was meant to be.
“Oily Fish is ‘junk food’ by the Gov’t traffic light classification, as is cheese.”
I think that we established long ago that the government guidelines are based on junk science. Humans are omnivorous and the healthiest diet is one with plenty of variety and enough of the various different food groups in it, as mentioned in the ironman diet. I learned this in school in the 1970s and I don’t think that that information is out of date, the low fat – high carb diet is a fad.
This is the kind of thing that I was talking about. A healthy diet tends to have a bit of everything.
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@Stonyground
I ignore all the diet crap and eat what my body tells me it needs: high fibre, medium carb & protein, low fat. Supplements are daily multivitamin and anything body signals it needs/wants/craving for be it cheese, sardines, tomatoes, baked beans, kippers, oat cakes, digestive biscuits….. I’ve eaten sardines etc straight from tin late at night! No, I’m not a pregnant man
Weight stable for ~15 years, cholesterol “obsenely low” as GP said
I tend to eat what I like too, I consider variety to be a good thing. I have to avoid consuming too many carbohydrates obviously but that’s about it. My weight was stable at 75 kilos for most of my life. I expanded a bit in my mid fifties but after being diagnosed as T2 diabetic I got it back under 75k again.