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ZedLeg wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2026 4:50 pm

Swervin_Mervin wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2026 4:46 pm

ZedLeg wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2026 4:20 pm It would be better if we spent money on giving the kids support and social engagement off their phones rather than just sending subsequent generations back to the 80s for an arbitrary amount of time.

We've been "educating" people on what's best for them in terms of diet and exercise for donkeys years and look where that's got us.

For years it was also cheaper and easier to get a big mac meal than cook dinner though, I’m all for helping people make good choices. I’d be curious to know whether more people cook now takeaway food has got more expensive.

I doubt it very much with the amount of uber eats, just eat etc people zooming about.

I wonder how much depression, illness, energy issues could all be solved by just halving the junk food a lot of people take in.

I think we have 7 McDonald's within about 5 miles of where I live. Now a new industrial estate is being built a couple of miles away with and a load of comments we're hoping it was another McDonald's as it arrived cold when it came from Glinton

Dave!

ZedLeg wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 2:06 am I think we can all agree she’s an odd one

Why can news not be positive for a while, just some nice comments. A bit like the Noel Edmond's radio station.

It's like having friends over for a BBQ and reminding them of the statistics they'll die from a car crash on the way home.

Dave!

Well that was an emphatic win for Burnham in the by-election. I’m sure Starmer won’t step down and will fight any challenge from Burnham for the leadership.

Restore took some votes from Reform, getting just over 3000 to Reform’s nearly 16,000. Putting them in third place ahead of Tory, Green and Lib Dems. That’s enough to give Farage cause for concern about the further right votes being split.

The reform candidate did a good job of highlighting (once again) how rubbish reform candidates are though.

V8Granite wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 6:20 am

ZedLeg wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 2:06 am I think we can all agree she’s an odd one

Why can news not be positive for a while, just some nice comments. A bit like the Noel Edmond's radio station.

It's like having friends over for a BBQ and reminding them of the statistics they'll die from a car crash on the way home.

Dave!

Her last one was visiting a primary school to talk sex education and job prospects

V8Granite wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 6:17 am I wonder how much depression, illness, energy issues could all be solved by just halving the junk food a lot of people take in.

That stuff brings in 20% tax so I guess the Government aren’t as interested in banning that stuff from kids Under 16

dinny_g wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 7:31 am

V8Granite wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 6:17 am I wonder how much depression, illness, energy issues could all be solved by just halving the junk food a lot of people take in.

That stuff brings in 20% tax so I guess the Government aren’t as interested in banning that stuff from kids Under 16

They don't out of love I'm sure

In positive news, I went to an open night at my eldest son's school where my youngest goes once he passes his 11+.

I couldn't have been more impressed by all the kids, some piano being played which was incredible, all the kids running experiments and leading people about etc.

Lots of silly kids about but also a huge amount of well rounded young people who will do a fine job of funding our pensions when they are of the age.

Dave!

It will surprise no one that it’s lobbying that stops the government improving food.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng- ... food-firms

On top of that, if the government makes the slightest change people get up in arms, because people are very attached to their favourite junk foods. Also, food is a bit like driving, most people think they know what they're doing, even when they don't.

Since the 1990s the government have proposed 700 policies to help limit obesity which have then never made it into legislation.

She means well

Gavster wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 9:11 am On top of that, if the government makes the slightest change people get up in arms, because people are very attached to their favourite junk foods. Also, food is a bit like driving, most people think they know what they're doing, even when they don't.

Since the 1990s the government have proposed 700 policies to help limit obesity which have then never made it into legislation.

There’s also been about 3 or 4 national food strategies that ended up being little more than a thought exercise

Ah now Gavin, that's unfair - Packets of butter are now smaller...

Every little helps...

it’s pretty difficult to target just kids for junk food though, unless you think that kids are doing the majority of the weekly shopping/cooking/ordering?

I think people here just don’t give a shit. Not the kind of population to bow down and listen to the government are we

Going back to the main topic, is the Makerfield result the beginning of the end for Starmer?

MikeHunt wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 10:42 am Going back to the main topic, is the Makerfield result the beginning of the end for Starmer?

I expect so, though i also expect the press to turn on the successor approx 3 milliseconds later. They probably have a nice list of scandals for us all to be shocked at with every late library book, that time he didn’t pay for a plastic bag at tesco and his wife’s sister getting caught shop lifting when she was 12…

Rich B wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 10:28 am it’s pretty difficult to target just kids for junk food though, unless you think that kids are doing the majority of the weekly shopping/cooking/ordering?

Well you could ban "Happy Meals" and toys in meals for one...

The press won’t need to delve that deep on Burnham, he’s got a minefield of incompetence regarding the rape scandals.

dinny_g wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 10:56 am

Rich B wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2026 10:28 am it’s pretty difficult to target just kids for junk food though, unless you think that kids are doing the majority of the weekly shopping/cooking/ordering?

Well you could ban "Happy Meals" and toys in meals for one...

You all wanted the gov to improve rather than ban though??!

they offer carrot sticks, water and books in happy meals.

make up your mind!