Following on from yesterday’s post aboout the Scottish government’s proposed measures to tackle obesity, here is a splendidly furious response to the initiative in The Publican. It is written by the Glasgow writer Roy Beers and can be summed up as ‘Quotes from the restaurant trade in Scotland suggest licensees consider McGovernment to be stark, staring mad. I agree with them.’
While that is it in a nutshell, the whole thing is worth a read.
I particularly liked the way he has linked the smoking ban with rising obesity levels. Who hasn’t packed on the pounds after knocking the snouts on the head? Is Scotland’s increasing weight problem down to the government’s earlier fag ban?