Industry Sweeteners

The Secretary of State for NewsCorp and the National Health Sell-off, Jeremy C Hunt, has been lecturing Labour about leaving the health of Britain's future share-holders and shelf-stackers in the hands of the free market. Hunt's shadow, Randy Burnham, has announced a consultation on capping sugar and fat levels in children's food; partly because childhood obesity is worse in Britain than almost anywhere else in Europe, but mostly because Randy Burnham is in opposition and not in government. Having criticised Burnham for doing nothing to tackle the problem when Labour was in power, Hunt announced that he is going to do nothing to tackle the problem; more precisely, he has informed the infant inflation industry that it had better get its house in order, otherwise legislation will be drafted for the consideration of the relevant lobbyists. This is, of course, the "Last Chance Saloon" approach which was adopted some time ago with regard to Hunt's chums in the popular press; and we all know how well that turned out.