Today sees the launch of Nanny’s much leaked White Paper on Health.
In this “worthy tome” she sets out her agenda for banning smoking, junk food and the other sins of personal pleasure that she despises.
Now much has been, and will be, written about the ban that will proposed on smoking in public places where there is prepared food. There will doubtless be a splendidly robust discussion as to what constitutes prepared food. We will return to that in future articles.
However, what has not been widely reported is this “wee gem”.
Nanny’s special friend Ken “Octopus” Livingstone (Mayor of London), who has his tentacles in all aspects of London life, has suffered a major rebuke; and has had to be reined in by Nanny’s Health Enforcer John “Twenty Rothmans a Day” Reid (funny how Nanny, and many of her friends were smokers isn’t it?).
You see, Nanny’s Octopus was keenly backing plans to give all of London’s 32 councils’ powers to ban smoking in all public places. Enforcer John’s plans do permit smoking, as said, in licensed public places where there is no prepared food; however, he will not be permitting councils to issue their own banning order.
Why is this?
Well, believe it or not, Nanny is getting a little worried about people accusing her of creating a “Nanny State”. It seems that she is beginning to detect a sea change in peoples’ moods, namely that they do not like to be nannied.
If www.nannyknowsbest.com has contributed in anyway to Nanny’s feeling of discomfort, then I can only say I am proud of that achievement (albeit a minor one); and hope to continue to discomfort, and annoy, her for the foreseeable future.
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