Government will require restaurants to label "unhealthy meals".  It'll be unlawful to use cartoons to promote "junk food".  Government will even regulate the size of crisps and chocolates under a food strategy for the next 20 years, outlined today.

It's hard to know where to start against this bizarre micromanagement of our lives.  Reading it, I half imagined it was an early April fool story.

If cuisine had been left to government to develop, we'd still be living off turnips and unleven bread.  If government ran supermarkets, there'd be catchment areas for breakfast cereal and waiting lists for bananas - just like there is with the other stuff they run.

Having comprehensively messed up most of the things they are supposed to be in charge of - like immigration control or equipping our armed forces properly - ministers and officials now want to control what we each eat.

Thousands of years of human history, how did we ever cope without Hilary Benn sorting out what's right for us?  Once again, we see adults treated like children.  The infantilisation of society continues.

Perhaps bossy politicians hectoring you and your family are the inevitable by product of a political system where 7 out of 10 politicians have safe seats.  If we had real competition to decide who gets to be your MP, we might be left to enjoy choice as to what we eat.



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