The celebrity chef now has such a fattened sense of self-importance that he thinks he has the right to lecture elected politicians.
‘We don’t want bullshit about the big society. We want a strategy to stop Britain being the fifth most unhealthy country in the world. The most unhealthy country in Europe. This is the first generation of kids expected to live not as long as their parents. Tell me, Mr Gove, Mr Lansley, how you plan to change that? Two out of five kids are obese. What is in your arsenal? The fact is, they are doing nothing…’
Sunday’s Observer featured this classic Jamie Oliver recipe: moralistic grandstanding, blatant panicmongering based on dubious ‘facts’ and lecturing not only us poor plebs but various secretaries of state, too. If I were a senior elected politician like Michael Gove or Andrew Lansley, I’d be asking St Jamie a more pertinent question: who the [expletive deleted] are you?
“The celebrity chef now has such a fattened sense of self-importance that he thinks he has the right to lecture elected politicians.”
Hey, Ed., doesn’t every citizen have the right
to lecture elected politicians?
“If I were a senior elected politician like Michael Gove or Andrew Lansley, I’d be asking St Jamie a more pertinent question: who the [expletive deleted] are you?”
Primacy to government officials and not
citizens?
Actually by Rob Lyons – I only deleted the expletive
That said, when it comes to a pretentious POM like Jamie Oliver then yes primacy to, well, heck, just about anyone.
Freedom of speech extends to the stupid.
Especially the stupid.
Unfortunately the UK government pays Oliver to be such a painful prat, which wouldn’t be so bad if he was a fact-based prat but, alas, he’s simply a panic-monger with a megaphone.
Ahhh . . . the stupid have the right to
speak, but have no right to a megaphone.
Sure they do, just not on the public’s dime