''CHILDREN should be forced to stay on school grounds at lunchtime''

I didn't think that they were allowed out. We weren't at the school I went to. Crazy.

Kevin Brennan will be learning a lot of new words from the Children if he continues threats like that, I suggest he tell that to a secondary school face to face, see what reaction he gets.

this will mean school children having to stay in and have expensive tastelesss food instead of freedom of choice.

When did they start letting them out at lunchtime??
They don't even have to have a cold shower after games nowadays an all...the world has gone mad.

The Childrens Family have to be part of this!They could be made to stay at school! T hey could be given a Meal Card that There parents can put so much money on the meal card Easy! or could pay the amount on the card every week!

If they and their stupid parents want 'freedom of choice' let them have it, just don't come to the taxpayer to foot the bill for the consequences of their lardy lifestyle.

It is hardly surprising that Kevin Brennan feels quite within his rights to make a suggestion like this. Twenty years ago he would have been the object of ridicule and derision for such a pronouncement. However the political mainstream has become less squeamish in more recent times about dictating to people how they should live.
The further erosion of civil liberties seems to be a daily obsession with our political masters, and it crosses party lines. We are continually being told what is good for us, how we should behave, what we should and shouldn’t eat and berated for not towing the line.
New mums are made to feel guilty if they do not breastfeed their babies, so much so that Jordan was attacked from all quarters when she was photographed bottlefeeing her baby. Councils feel they have the right to dictate how much salt we eat that one council has been dishing out salt cellars with fewer holes to chippies in their area. Even individuals feel free to comment on how much salt someone puts on their food. Five a day has now become the mantra of all the self appointed health police.
Those celebrity prigs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall unapologetically lecture the nation about ethical food and are fated by politicians and so called experts for doing so. The vocabulary challenged Gordon Ramsey tells us we should be fined, or at least restaurants should be for using non seasonal food. George Monbiot and his fellow greenie travellers incessantly castigate us for driving, flying, heating our homes, eating imported food and going on holiday.
We are constantly being told by almost everyone with right wing views that ‘if we have nothing to hide we have nothing to fear’ from constant surveillance and ID cards.
Not only do the authorities want to control our behaviour in public spaces they now want to reach into our homes also. Adults are being treated like children and being told how much they should drink in their own homes. Smokers, now social pariahs are told they shouldn’t smoke in their own houses in an echo of the Simpson’s parody ‘the children; think of the children’.
Children are now being recruited and brainwashed at school and encouraged to hector their parents to ‘eat healthily’ and recycle.
Our freedoms are being constantly eroded in a dangerous and insidious way and the fact that Mr. Brennan can utter this utter nonsense is only another example of the freedom which politicians and experts feel free to control our lives.
I say to him and others, who wish to do so, push off!

so now the government anrt happy just trying to tell us what to do, there also wanting to control the movements of all our kids as well, get these jokers out soon as

Years ago you would see one or two fat people but these days there are loads of them.

Women in particular seem to be getting worse. I was at a pub last night and the amount of lager swilling women with their beer bellies hanging out of their crop tops was appalling. I'd be embarrassed to go out looking like that.

Fat people are also a drain on the NHS and any self inflicted greed induced aflication should not be treated for free.

That reminds me, I was in Asda last week and in front of me was a very large lady who had a huge trolley full of food, clearly a monthly shop.

I jokingly said to her 'that will keep you going for a couple of days at most'. She didn't take it in the eay it was meant and proceeded to tell me that her size wasn't her fault it was genetic, slow metabilism, tried upteen diets, just can't shift it i.e. everyone else's fault but hers. Eat less and move around more was my advice.

Audenshaw Bob, you old charmer you. i bet the ladies are queing up to listen to your silver tongue ;)

Audenshaw Bob if thats what you think, heres an idea for you. How about all fat people and smokers stop paying a large portion of there taxes. After all if there not going to be treated on the NHS why should they have to pay for a service to look after arroggant sods like yourself.

I agree. A healthy diet is vitally important. A good digestive system with a healthy diet improves concentration and sharpness.

Fizzy drinks should be banned as excess sugar leads to hyper-activity and a drop in memory retention.

Challenger you should pay more. I've only been in hospital a couple of times to get patched up. I am never ill so why should I pay for smokers and fatties who both have no self control?

I dont know which schools allow the kids to go out at lunch - but I know my daughters does not! The kids should be made to stay on the premises - there is no reason for them to leave at lunch at all. If they dont like school dinners, they take a packed lunch - simple!

Children these days should be kept on the school grounds 24/7. That will help to cut crime.

I agree with Bob, fat = lazy. Eat less, drink less, walk don't drive, run a bit and yes, please stop wearing those short tops showing off those pudding saggy stomachs. yuck.

Some kids use going out of school at dinnertime as an excuse to go home in the afternoons skipping afternoon lessons and truanting so something like this SHOULD be implemented to clampdown on this unauthorised absence by schoolchildren.

Germaine Greer's after you Bob.

A very fine post Fran.

All of you give fair points, however, I am 42 and I am casting my mind back.

No diet drinks available when I was a kid? Everything was loaded with sugar. When I moved on to the 'comp', chippy dinner everyday.

We didn’t have Jamie, Gordon and the diet doctors on the 4 channels we had on TV, so mum cooked us what she was brought up on, sausages and bacon, potato hash, liver and onions etc, etc.

So, when I was a school I was eating very unhealthily by today’s standards! However, I can only think of two fat kids when I was there?

As far as concentration goes, my school was a successful one regarding exam results etc.

Maybe it’s because we 2 hours per week of games and PE, sports clubs and loads of activities. The fat wheezy boy with a note from his mum was made to do cross country and join in by the teachers. No one was felt sorry for and counseled because they were fat. They were exercised, no choice!

Maybe it’s the selling off of playing fields and the scrapping of competitive sports, so we don’t upset the poor loves who aren’t good at sport, It's more PC to penalise the fit and sporty than to make the fatties run!

Academically, don’t buy it either. The curriculum had two hours minimum of PE/Games and we still did O Levels, Remember doing GCE Math’s with out a calculator? Log book and slide rule instead? I think our minds were more attuned to academic achievement then, even though we all drank ‘sugar laden’ fizzy drinks!

Also in the evenings, all we did was run around, play football and what have you. My ‘Atari’ was there as a treat if I did my homework well and did a few chores around the house, it wasn’t there as a means of entertainment!

Just a thought.........

Further to my last, I think more value should be placed on being fit as apposed to being thin!

According to the BMI chart Phil Vickery and Matt Stephens (England Rugby players) are Morbidly Obese!

Utter rubbish, they may be pushing 20 stone but they are professional athletes!

Most models on the other hand weigh less than 'a portion of cod and chips' and they are considered fabulous. They are only role models for eating disorders and appetite suppressants.

My 11 year daughter is being kept clear of publications that promote 'skinniness'.

Fitness, not fatness should be the message!

Fran,

On the money. Today topped it all when our PM told us to stop throwing food away. Could these fools be any more intrusive. Our bins, our shopping. I am jus waiting for a government pronouncement on how many times we can pee.

Bob,

Did a fat lass turn you down at the Conti Club? Fat people and smokers do take up more time in the NHS but

a. They pay for it through increased tax.

b. The Health Service is for all. You can't pick and choose who gets treatment. Maybe we should stop treating all people who are ill. Think how much money we would save. Motorists & Cycliststake up a lot of time as they have accidents - are they next? Old people die in hospitals all the time. If we stopped treating them, think what we could save. - Euthanasia rules.


OR

We could get a healt service that is for all. If the government hadn't wasted billions on countless reorganisations and failed IT systems, crap GP contracts and free prescriptions in Scotland, maybe we all could use it.

Audenshaw bob "Challenger you should pay more. I've only been in hospital a couple of times to get patched up. I am never ill so why should I pay for smokers and fatties who both have no self control?"

Last time i saw a doctor was in 1998, last time i went to a hospital was for a couple of stiches some time in the mid eighties. So how in hell am i a strain on the NHS and what the hell am i paying for if im going to be refussed treatment for being a smoker or over weight.

The doctors and the government are fighting a loosing battle as long as we have "Lazy parents" Who cannot be bothered to cook their children real food.and i dont mean throw a peice of frozen fish and chips in the oven or a burger under the grill.Parents who are too lazy to cook their kids a decent meal should be made to enter into a education program on what food children need and how much they need....Parents are not listening.