So they've started on fatties, just as I and many other people predicted a few years back.

According to this morning's headlines, obesity costs the nation more than both smoking, and the so called 'war against terror'. Allegedly, the UK spends £47 billion a year on this problem, and never mind how this dodgy figure (which I don't believe) has been reached, it seems the ever so righteous, finger wagging public are being given a new bunch of people to look down their noses at.

When smoking was outlawed in public places back in 2007, I and many others predicted that the nanny state would gain momentum, and would soon be telling people what they can and cannot eat. The persecution of smokers was somewhat justifiable in areas where other people have no choice but to inhale second hand smoke, but that persecution is now continuing into open air spaces such as parks, with the full support of the righteous finger waggers. Never mind the fact that somebody having cigarette in an open space doesn't affect them in the slightest.

I'm a slim person, who generally eats very healthily, but if I exercised my God-given right to stuff my face with burgers and be a fat person, who has the right to get on their high horse and point their finger at me? The same wankers who think it's their right to have a go at somebody for enjoying a cigarette in the middle of Hyde Park of course, and they will, despite the fact that what somebody else chooses to eat doesn't affect them in the slightest.

“But we have to pay for their lifestyles!” say the righteous mob.

No you bloody don't. We all pay for the NHS, and people such as smokers and drinkers are taxed to the hilt for their pleasures, which is why you're cynically being wound up against fat people. The government wants to slap an extra tax on another easy target, and they make such taxes popular by making public enemies out of someone.

I know a 'fat family', who believe it or not, aren't fat because they're slobs, or unhealthy eaters, not that any of that is anybody else's business. It's simply their metabolism. They actually make more of an effort to exercise and eat healthily than most people because of the way their metabolisms are. Twice a day though, the mother endures nasty comments when she takes her kids to and from school. Comments like “They should have their kids taken away...”, “I bet they're unemployed dole scroungers, getting fat at our expense...” and worse.

That's only going to get nastier now the media campaign has started to give them the smoker treatment.

It shouldn't be the media's job to fuel this sort of prejudice, or the government's place to legislate against people's pleasures in life. The nanny state is getting far too big, and we should all be alarmed at how big it's getting. I for one don't appreciate suits in Whitehall deciding what's best for me, and encouraging the righteous mob to target me. You might think it's a good thing when they persecute smokers, or even fat people, but mark my words... They'll try to stop something YOU enjoy at some point. It could be chocolate. It could be beer or wine. It could be your favourite takeaway or confectionery. They'll do it, with the support of the righteous brigade, and you'll be aggrieved. You'll say: “Hold on. I know this stuff's not good for me, but surely it's my right to make the decision if I want it or not? Who the Hell do you think you are, picking on me for one of my pleasures in life?”

You'll have every right to complain, unless of course, you're one of the dimwits who supports the current government backed persecutions.

Enjoy your ciggies, drinks, cream cakes, and whatever else!

YOLO, as they say on a mysteriously popular social media platform.

Graveyard.

I love a cake me. And a ciggy. Life without cake and ciggies would be no life at all.