Ain’t ‘ee:
And now we have a new health secretary. She is the gloriously incompetent (in my opinion, based on watching many past performances) Victoria Atkins MP.
I have zero expectation of her. But what really worries me is that her husband is Paul Kenward, managing director of British Sugar.
Sweet dreams must be made of this as far as he is concerned.
A woman’s place in politics is to be decided by her husband’s job, is it?
That does suggest that at least the idiotic jihad against sugar might be stopped.
“we”
Who’s “we”, precious? Do you see “us” on the streets of British cities or on TV?
I saw on the telescreen that they’re going to increase the sugar ration to 25g.
Victoria Atkins looks like a tranny.
He had similar objections to Kate Bingham, the vaccine supremo, didn’t he?
The repellent cvnt needs a good pegging.
@BraveFart – No he’d secretly enjoy it, then write a blog post decrying the tories fucking everybody up the arse and if pensions were to be repurposed to pay for green projects, and we need a wealth tax, and on and on depending which hobby horse he couldnt ride at the moment because he had a sore arse.
I’m sure Murphy would be appalled if anyone suggested that his wife’s clinical judgement would be affected by his activism
That’d probably warm his ego and cement his reputation as a true polymath.
Well, to be fair, sugar is definitely one of the culprits in our health problems generally. Back in the day there was a stoush between the Dairy industry and the Sugar industry over which was the biggest contributor to obesity and heart disease; and the Sugar industry won, leading to things like the food pyramid and low fat diets. Which were of course totally disastrous for overall health. As we now know, or perhaps should know but appear to ignore, is that fats in the diet are far from bad and may (obviously not in considerable excess) basically good for you, and excessive carbs especially as simple sugars like Sucrose, are bloody awful.
This appointment seems unlikely to advance the correction of that huge blunder, though only incidentally one suspects.
excessive carbs especially as simple sugars like Sucrose, are bloody awful
Sorry, but that as a statement is completely beyond me. The metabolic pathways of starch & sucrose are 1st year high class science. Starch through maltose (a sugar) to glucose. Sucrose via enzyme action to the simpler glucose, again. The body really doesn’t give a toss which one it gets. Humans are opportunist feeders. The system evolved to cope with this. The only important word in that was excessive. Trying to make out one is worse than the other obscures the obvious. People eat too sodding much. Eat less & they won’t be obese. It’s a strength of will matter, not a dietary matter. It’s just looking for excuses. But that’s all fat bastards ever want to do. Find excuses for being fat bastards rather than exercise some self control.
We eat too much because of central heating. Our esteemed host has said this many times.
I remember seeing on the telly a show about an expedition to the Arctic. A dietician had recommended tons of whale blubber be included in the rations because that had the highest calorific value. It was obviously in the early days of the stupidity virus pandemic, because my A level biology had taught me the body is totally crap at digesting fats. Carbs, mate, innit?
A traditional survival food is pemmican, which is generally dried meat mixed with an equal amount of melted fat (I presume suet so it doesn’t go bad so quickly) that solidifies. Indians and fur trappers would live off it for months at a time.
https://lewis-clark.org/tools-and-techniques/cooking/making-pemmican/
Sounds to me like the dietician was right and A level biology lacking!
Having been at university with the new Health Secretary I can confirm Murphy’s assessment of her competence is arguably the first time he has been correct on anything.
However, his tirade against Sugar is arguably supremely ironic given he is a Net Zero partisan and in favour of the complete cessation of fossil fuel usage – both likely to kill 60 million in the UK alone. (which would bring it to the WEF target population of between 8 and 10 million)