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(18-07-2020 20:17 )Charlemagne Wrote:  It looks like there's been a stabbing at Thorpe Park today.

Who takes a knife into a theme park

Guys who think they are gangsters

(18-07-2020 20:17 )Charlemagne Wrote:  It looks like there's been a stabbing at Thorpe Park today.

Who takes a knife into a theme park

The sort of person who carries a knife on the street. Scum.

Now that the trade deals boats have probably been burnt, the Government seems to have finally grown a pair regarding China's human rights abuses.

Boris unveils £10m ad campaign to fight obesity in war against COVID - 19 plans to be unveiled on Monday include will ban advertisements for junk food on TV before the 9pm watershed, online advertising of products high in sugar, fat or salt, and in-store promotions of such foodstuffs, such as buy one get one free offers. “We have epidemic levels of obesity in the UK and we are storing up huge problems for children and young people unless we turn things around,” said Prof Russell Viner, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

In a later interview with the BBC, Johnson linked his own experience with Covid-19 to what he called “our national struggle with obesity”.

He said: “Typically our great country tends to be a little bit fatter than many other countries in Europe. So you asked about my own personal circumstances, and one of the lessons I drew from that is the need for us all to be fitter and healthier. And if we’re fitter and healthier by the way, we will also be happier.

“And – and here’s the key thing, if we’re fitter and healthier, and if we lose weight, we’ll be better able not just to individually withstand coronavirus, but we’ll do a great deal to protect the NHS. And that’s why we’ll be bringing forward an obesity strategy.”

As part of the plan family doctors will be told to advise dangerously overweight patients to improve their health by taking more exercise rather than just taking drugs or undergoing weight loss surgery.

GPs will also be asked to recommend that patients who are keen to shed some pounds get involved in more social activities, in an expansion of the NHS’s policy of using “social prescribing” rather than conventional medicine to treat depression, loneliness and other mental health conditions. And they will also advise people to use NHS-approved diet management apps and start working with new “healthy weight coaches” that will be provided by GP surgeries.

However, initiatives that were due to feature in the plan, for example, GPs referring more patients to weight loss schemes such as WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers, have been dropped. GPs made it clear that they did not feel comfortable talking to patients about something as personal as their weight.

The government will consult on a plan to compel manufacturers of alcoholic products to clearly state on them how many calories they contain, whether they are sold in pubs, restaurants, supermarkets or off-licences.
However, initiatives that were due to feature in the plan, for example, GPs referring more patients to weight loss schemes such as WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers, have been dropped. GPs made it clear that they did not feel comfortable talking to patients about something as personal as their weight.

“The idea of using weight management programmes [more] is sensitive because GPs don’t like telling people that they are fat,” said one official involved in drawing up the strategy.

Bit rich of that fat cunt telling this fat cunt to lose weight

He has to lead by example...

thats total bollocks about GP's shy about calling you fat my GP does it all the time

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/mo...id=BHEA000

Thank god for that.

But it's not remotely enough, the whole things shit.
1. Planners decide that a 36 mile stretch of road's too slow and decide to install some signs so we can use the hard shoulder.
2. The builders tell the Government it'll cost £350 million and to make the builders work quickly the Government makes them rent the lanes they're obstructing at a cost of £50 million
3. They cone off all the hard shoulder and lane 1 on both sides of 36 miles of road. All the remaining lanes are narrowed and a speed limit is imposed with speed cameras along the entire 36 miles
4. The builders start at one end working on a few hundred yards moving along the 36 miles over 3 years. They work just 40 hours a week. At Christmas they stop work for 2 weeks but put up signs saying the speed restrictions stay in place over the holiday period. So there.
5. After 3 years they change the coning so the central reservation can be done and the builders start on that again at a hundred yards at a time for a further 2 years.
6. When that's done they change the coning again to give access lanes for the technicians who set up the computers in the signs they've installed. One a week the technician drives his Avensis along the access lane and parks it in a car park at the office so he can do his expenses.
7. The builders collect their money. £400 million. That's £350 million for the work plus another £50 million they charge the Government for charging them the rent on the lanes.
8. When they're paid they reopen the road and we can drive at 70 again.
The point is that the overall effect of 5 years at 50 miles a hour and the effect of more vehicles on the road in the same period results in the overall time saving being less than anything gained through the huge cost of the scheme in the first place.

If you wanted to speed up they should make the builders move the cones on progressively as they complete each few hundred yards or put the speed limit up during the construction phase to say 90 miles an hour to compensate or just leave it alone.

The worst case scenario has happened too. The planners have realised that actually we need the hard shoulder and so the signs installed at great cost will never be switched on to let us use the hard shoulder anyway.

talk about incompetence...or inconvenience? this Government probably gets first prize in both categories