Can you remember when the new Health Secretary Wes Streeting proudly announced the he was thinking of offering free fat jabs to the unemployed to “get them back to work’?
Wes Streeting said a trial to test if anti-obesity injections can increase employment and ease pressure on the NHS may be a “game-changer”.
The somewhat insulting implication here is that the unemployment are a bunch of fat b*stards sitting around on their backsides and physically unable to get to a place of work! Streeting’s logic is that we can force them to lose a few stone then they might be waddle to the Jobs Market and maybe even find gainful employment! (The NHS seem to welcome the obese based on the number of fat nurses one sees in its corridors)
However, there may be a slight problem with Streeting’s plan.
It might kill people. Lots of them.
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