What the last line is going to be
There is, as Sir Michael Marmot argues, no reason for this. We could feed the people of the UK and the world appropriately. We could take people out of destitution. We would end the threat to people’s health from poor diets. We could save the cost of doing so in healthcare terms in all likelihood.
But we do not do that.
That is because big pharma does not want us to do so.
And it is because big sugar does not want us to do so.
Depends upon hte nutter but it could be the fault of the Tories or the Joos.
George Osborne bears the greatest responsibility
Ah, it’s the Tories today.
There is at least one thing I have some sympathy with.
George Osborne was, is, and will always be, a repellent cvnt.
We could feed the people of the UK and the world appropriately.
How, when dietary advice changes with the weather?
We could take people out of destitution.
Instead, our reaction to a fairly insignificant disease made about 500 million people destitute.
Blaming big pharma or big sugar is to deny agency to the people, who are mere straws in the wind of capitalism. Instead you will do what I, a virtuous socialist, damn well tell you to do.
A Jewish Tory
“That is because big pharma does not want us to do so.
And it is because big sugar does not want us to do so.”
No, it is because it is MY money and I don’t want us to do so.
We could probably start by reducing taxes on anyone in the bottom two deciles to zero.
And importing a city the size of Manchester of people who have contributed the square root of f&£k all might not be the best idea either.
I do like the principle that adults can be fed by some gargantuan bureaucracy an amusing one. It’s like a modern take on Oliver Twist
What an absolute waste of oxygen the man is –
An utterly boorish oaf bereft of any redeeming features.
“Big pharma”.
Wot, companies such as BioNtech, Oxford- AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson?
The people who manufactured products that a certain 60+ year old ‘professor’ believed should be injected into everybody (“worldwide vaccination programme”) and made billions of £’s in profit? That big pharma?
@ Van Patten
*At least* the bottom three deciles as far as taxes on income are concerned. Regrettably there is no way of exempting them from taxes on consumption while still applying those to the rest of the community [in theory one can but in practice the taxman cannot prevent a poor person purchasing tax-free items and passing them on to a richer person]
@ Adolff
Astra-Zeneca did *not* make £billions of profit because one of the terms of the deal with Oxford was that the vaccine should be supplied at cost for the duration of the pandemic.