Britain is a whiny socialist nanny police state...

I'm an American of half-English descent, and I'm disgusted at what
happened to that country. Such intelligent and efficient people,
but something happened along the way and now their society is
doomed. They are so paranoid and getting more totalitarian in
their attempts at social engineering, so that they have actually
begun locking up obese people in mental institutions (danger to
oneself) and are now planning to tax fats and oils in an attempt
to price unhealthy foods out of the reach of the unwashed proles
and thus save the NHS millions of pounds a year. And everywhere
you go there are surveillance cameras, ostensibly watching for
criminals and terrorists, but soon to be devoted to catching
Britons consuming unapproved fatty snacks.

"Mister Superstar" <superstar.TakeThisOut@deadcelebrity.org> wrote in message
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> I'm an American of half-English descent,

Poor bugger! That is some mixture.


> and I'm disgusted at what
> happened to that country.

Quite so. President Bush eh! What can you do?


> Such intelligent and efficient people,

Oh sorry..........you can't be referring to the US after all! (sorry to most
folks in soc.culture.usa but I couldn't resist it)



> but something happened along the way and now their society is
> doomed.

Doomed you say. Dad's Army! Of course another catch-phrase from that show
was "stupid boy"


> They are so paranoid and getting more totalitarian in
> their attempts at social engineering, so that they have actually
> begun locking up obese people in mental institutions (danger to
> oneself)

No-one was locked up because they were obese. Chris Leppard, if that is who
you are referring to, was taken into care under the Mental Health Act and
allowed home after assesments. He wasn't just obese though. He was a
sufferer of Prader-Will Syndrome and he was assessed to make sure that he
was capable of making said decisions for himself. That in itself is a
tricky, complicated and moral issue. However the idea that people are locked
up simply for being fat is just a lie.

http://www.pwsa.co.uk/main.php?catagory=14&sub_catagory=48


Allan