General Chat

surely treating the sympton not the cause? It has been remarked about overweight children and families walking around eating junk food. See it often in Gloucester, walking along eating a huge sausage roll or pasty, children in buggies eating doughnuts etc. These are not cheap. More education might help. But how about giving a proportion of benefits as vouchers to spend on healthy food, vegetables, fruit, milk etc? Would they eat it though if they had it? It has to start with the parents.

Im obese and on benefits but I dont drink, don't smoke and eat healthy foods....I can't go to the gym as im disabled and can barely walk let alone use that sort of equipment!!! I'm in pain 24/7.......
I already have to start paying bedroom tax in Apr and also 20% of my council tax...I don't know where they think I am going to get the money from!! Now this, I think this country has gone mad....They just want to punish the poor/disabled and now fat people...It's like being held to ransome......

Jules x

It's not likely to become statutory - as others have said, apart from being an idiotic idea that shows, yet again, how detached from reality this government is, it's too difficult to monitor.

Amazing the governement still hasn't sorted the loophole that allows the very wealthy to steal our money (ie not pay their fair rate of tax) using tax avoidance!!