Here's an injection now get back to work

[SueEllen]

Get off you now not fat bum!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...-wes-streeting

New weight-loss jabs could be given to unemployed people to help them get back into work, Wes Streeting has suggested.

The health secretary said “widening waistbands” were placing a burden on the NHS.

The latest generation of weight-loss medicine, such as Ozempic or Zepbound, could be administered to people in order to get them back into employment, and to ease costs to the health service, he added.

Streeting’s suggestion, in the Telegraph, comes as the government announced a £279m investment from Lilly – the world’s largest pharmaceutical company – on the day the prime minister hosted an international investment summit.


The plans announced at the summit will include real-world trials of weight-loss jabs’ impact on worklessness, according to the Telegraph.

[escapeUK]

As much as I despise the occupational government, this is a good idea. Reduced weight will increase confidence, energy and self esteem. This could actually work, obviously not on socialists who think others should work on their behalf, but on normal people, yes.

[Snooky]

obviously not on socialists who think others should work on their behalf

I don't think you actually understand what socialism is.

[vetran]

I don't think you actually understand what socialism is.

Obviously you haven't read Animal farm!

[NotAllThere]

I don't think you actually understand what socialism is.

He thinks it's when poor people are living off the money rich people generate.

Which of course is far worse than rich people are living off the money the proletariat generate. Or something.

Re: Animal Farm - exploiters will exploit under any system. Look how many of the former Soviet Union bully boys became capitalist bully boys. Plus ça change.

[Snooky]

Obviously you haven't read Animal farm!

Several times. Perhaps you didn't really take it in fully, because it's not so much a critique of communism as an observation on how greed and selfishness are inherent in some humans, regardless of the societal or economic system.

Orwell was an ardent socialist, so your comment was fairly pointless.

[escapeUK]

I don't think you actually understand what socialism is.

The philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Did I miss anything out?

[Paddy]

As much as I despise the occupational government, this is a good idea. Reduced weight will increase confidence, energy and self esteem. This could actually work, obviously not on socialists who think others should work on their behalf, but on normal people, yes.

They could also inject with Alprostadil assist with some trades.

[Snooky]

The philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Did I miss anything out?

Yes, any semblance of understanding of what makes for a decent and equitable society which looks after everyone. You should probably escape if you don't want your society to be that way.

[KinooOrKinog]

As much as I despise the occupational government, this is a good idea. Reduced weight will increase confidence, energy and self esteem. This could actually work, obviously not on socialists who think others should work on their behalf, but on normal people, yes.

They'll just spend their benefits on new clothes instead of pies.