Fat Chance

I’ve decided to take up a challenge from Norma.

Now, like me, this story probably makes ones jaw drop. For me though its part of larger issue for me as an Englishman. See, for too long the welfare state has allowed the feckless, the work-shy, the indigent to demand things to be given to them for nothing rather than earning them. This then means that those in actual need have to make do with less, seeing as those who want something for nothing are doing their best to empty the pot. I very much believe that the Welfare State, along with the NHS and the British Empire is of this countries greatest achievements.

So it makes my blood boil when I see stories like that. It’s not like her size has stopped her having 6 kids is it? She cant fit into an office chair? Cant stand up? But she can manage to get to the kitchen often enough! I would venture here that her husband has to be complicit in her getting to the size and self hating state that she is in. Why has he not maybe, just maybe, stopped her form stuffing her fat face? If you really do love someone then surely the onus is upon you to stop them harming themselves? I dread to think of what her children must be going through and dragging them through the media like that is horrid.

I have been coming round to the idea that people with self inflicted diseases or health conditions should absolutely come bottom of the list when it comes to NHS help. That goes for the obese as well as it does the alcoholic or the drug addict. My stepfather died from pancreatic cancer a few years ago, and he was a good and decent man who always worked hard his entire life. Instead of funds being poured into cancer research, we waste untold amounts on making addicts better just so they can right back out and do it all over again. I would give each addict, whether they be addicted to food heroin or booze, one single chance at treatment. If they fuck it up then sod them, I’d leave them to die. You should get fit and healthy because it’s the right thing to do, not because the state is paying for it. Perhaps, and a t a stretch, I would fund vouchers or something towards the cost of healthy food but then again why should she get that when I have to spend my hard earned on my own?