If we called it ‘metabolic syndrome’, we’d be lining up to demand a cure. But that wouldn’t fit the Conservative mindset
‘Strip fat people of their benefits”: a chill went through me when I saw the headline, a lingering anxious cold-stone. I am inured to this spectacle, the policy floated with neither basis nor justifiable purpose, beyond the manufacture of shame and hatred. The Department for Work and Pensions would have to go a lot further than its quotidian spite to shock me now. It was the verb that did it: today we want to strip fat people of their benefits. How long will it be before some minister of public health suggests we strip them naked and run them through town?
How much humiliation will ever be punishment enough for this bizarre new crime?
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