24-stone politician seeks to ban McDonald’s Happy Meals
7th April 2011
Read it.
For those unacquainted with BritSpeak, 24 stone is 336 pounds. (No, I don’t know why they can’t express peopleweight in pounds like a normal person. You can’t blame it on the metric system, because they don’t say it in kilograms, either.)
The basic message here is, ‘I’m a fatty, so I’m picking on McDonald’s.’ Your (or, rather, they’re, since you are presumably wise enough to avoid New York) tax dollars at work.
Just for once I’d like to have someone running for office answer the question ‘What do you think the important issues in this race are?’ with the honest ‘Whatever restriction on individual liberty I think might get me a headline’.