Sweet Reason

Food manufacturers, those delicious people whose advice the coalition solicited on how best to chew up and spit out the NHS, have warned against any attempt at making them pay towards the Government's pretence of caring about public health. Taxes on unhealthy pleb-feed would simply raise the grocery bills of hard-working families, because rather than averting the taxes by cleaning up their act, the obesity profiteers would simply pass on their costs to those same hard-working families. By contrast to the hedonistic wealth of hard-working families basking on a decade's worth of secure rights and rising wages, the obesity profiteers are suffering terribly and close to breaking point, and somebody ought to do something about it.