Health Secretary Alan Johnson today called for an end to stigmatising the obese.
The Cabinet minister warned that 'vilifying' fat people will not make them lose weight or solve Britain's obesity 'epidemic'.
Instead, Mr Johnson proposed a national campaign tackling unhealthy lifestyles.
His comments come only a week after David Cameron said the overweight had only themselves to blame and they must take personal responsibility for their condition.
But in a speech to the Fabian Society in London, Mr Johnson made a veiled attack on the Conservative leader by saying the Government does not have a licence to 'hector' and 'lecture' people on how they live their life.
**And this from New Labour, who keep on hectoring and lecturing people on exactly how to run their lives, then taxing them when they choose not to listen.
Mr Johnson said: 'Just as the Government has a moral duty to tackle poverty and exclusion, so it also has a duty to address obesity.
But this is not a licence to hector and lecture people on how they should spend their lives - not least because this will not work.
'Research shows us that vilifying the extremely fat doesn't make people change their behaviour. Commentators who point and shout at pictures of the morbidly obese simply fuel the problem.
**Much like how they have tackled child poverty, oh hang on they cock'd that one up as the figures are on the up...
'Those whose seriously unhealthy lifestyles are not advertised by their waist lines will simply say: 'Well that's not me. I don't need to change what I do.' But if you present the message more intelligently ... then people respond.'
**Oh do fuck off Alan, seriously. Who is going to take you seriously when you allow shit like this to happen in the NHS.
The NHS has threatened to halt part of the two-year-old's treatment because his parents plan to buy him a new set of legs through a private healthcare company.
Ever since doctors had to amputate both legs and part of his right hand in March 2007, the NHS has been trying to find suitable replacement legs.
Or maybe this: link
A terminally ill cancer patient has claimed she is being "cheated" out of NHS care because she wants to pay privately for a breast cancer drug.
Debbie Hirst, from Carbis Bay, Cornwall, said she was told by the Royal Cornwall Hospital that if she pays for the drug Avastin, her free NHS treatment will stop.
Or even this: link
A Grandmother whose free NHS treatment was withdrawn because she paid privately for anti-cancer drugs has died.
Yesterday Linda O'Boyle's husband condemned the policy behind the decision and said it had made his dying wife's last months even more stressful.
Mrs O'Boyle, 64, had been receiving state-funded treatment - including chemotherapy - for colon cancer.
But when she took cetuximab, a drug which promised to extend her life but is not available on the NHS, her health trust made her start paying for her care
Still Alan who pocketed a cool £111,021 in expenses for 2006/07, cares not a jot. A statist who is happy for the very patients he is ultimately in charge of, to die thanks to policies he helped to bring in. A freedom hater who thinks that we all need ID cards.
The sort of bloke who can bleat on about rights for hours yet thinks that anyone who has a touch of the tarbrush about them should be locked up for 42 days, after all you never know what they might do?
Alan Johnson one who should do the world a favour and step out in front of a bus.
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