2nd August
Unhealthy eating
ONE of the very few areas that an elected North East Assembly will have a degree of influence over will be public health.
No power to create any more doctors or nurses, build hospitals or reduce waiting times, but it will be able to come up with strategies and initiatives over areas such as ‘healthy eating.’
So, perhaps the Sunderland Echo will be the first to be ‘kicked by the Ass,’ and be taken to task for encouraging the Wearside populace to consume large quantities of flaky pastry based products (last week’s promotion) ... far from healthy, and be encouraged to give away free apples and oranges to Echo readers instead.
But then again, one major supporter of an elected North East Assembly is former Sunderland Leader, Colin ‘Two Pasties’ Anderson.
After his statements in previous years that Council Tax rises were the equivalent of a couple of pasties a week, a bag of chips or a couple of Mars bars, no doubt he will champion an Assembly that will, ‘just cost us a sausage roll or two to run.’
Somehow I doubt he would ever replace his liking for equating council tax rises with unhealthy foodstuffs with pro-regionalisation, healthy eating rhetoric which states an Assembly would cost you no more than a pound of bananas a week.
Neil Herron,
Sunderland
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