Boris Johnson Attacked For Being Right (Again)
Boris Johnson has done it this time. When will he learn to stop saying things that are right on the money? Doesn’t he know that the press will give him hell for it? He should really stop saying what everybody is thinking. Like the rest of the country, he should keep a low profile and try not to draw the attention of the mind police.
His crime this time is to – allegedly – criticise the soon-to-be-knighted Jamie Oliver whose health regime is leaving the nation’s kids hungry, bad tempered, and prowling the school corridors across the land looking for any stray Mars Bars. Ask any teacher and they’ll tell you how unpopular everybody is finding Oliver’s plan. It only makes me wonder how many saturated fats are consumed each day by cabinet ministers. Has Prescott really cut out the pork pies? I think we should be told.
This doesn’t mean I would advocate the widespread distribution of meat and potato pies in the morning assembly, but if children are learning to be adults, then they should be taught how to exercise a little free will. By all means inform them about healthy eating, and by all means make healthy options available to them, but for goodness sake, you can’t force tofu on a child and expect them to be happy. What is the point? They’ll come to hate healthy food like I now hate white sauce and sponge cake I was once force fed at school.
But, of course, we are in a nation where free will is frowned upon. I know I’ll soon be made a wanted man simply by refusing to have a bell fitted to my bike, but how long will it be before children are forcibly removed from families to be whisked away to a fat camp should they have dared indulge their love of saturated fats?
Some people see Jamie Oliver as a lovable little Cockney tyke, with an adorable lisp and polyunsaturated sunlight beaming through his lovely locks. I say we need men like Boris too see this tyrant off. This could be Boris’ finest hour if only the media would leave him alone.