They'll give some sort of excuse like Type 2 diabetes causing the NHS too much expense so it's for everyone's good if they're made to lose weight.rebeccariots2 wrote:ohsocynical wrote:Just a thought, but if God forbid Dave gets in in May and they go ahead with cutting overweight people's benefits, what's the betting they'll introduce a limit to how much people can weigh. I don't think for a moment IDS will be satisfied with 1,780 people losing out. He'll want a jolly sight more than that.
I believe the weight that qualifies a female as obese is around fourteen stone.
And at the same time they'll probably bring in a new regulation / expense band for any MPs or Lords / Ladies who weigh more than fourteen stone to make sure they're entitled to double rations in the Westminster bars, tea rooms, restaurants etc. Wouldn't want them unable to concentrate on doing their very very special jobs (aka sleeping, braying and jeering, talking rubbish, playing candy crush and tweeting) for us through lack of sustenance. Pickles, in particular, will need that help to keep his focus on bin collections.
I'm being sarcastic - but as that Andrew Rawnsley piece showed so well - this sort of ludicrous move wouldn't be out of place in their rarified world of one rule for us and another for everyone else.
Smokers are are already being unsympathetically treated, so it's a done deal they'll be struck off the benefits bill at the same time.