Did Matt Hancock axe Fat Boris’s national anti-obesity fight after just one month?
Matt Hancock: the eyes are open but the brain is dead.
Apparently so.
Boris Johnson launched a new strategy to tackle obesity in the UK – claiming it was crucial in the fight against Covid-19 – only for Matt Hancock to close the organisation running it.
It was unlikely ever to come to anything, because the scheme was being run by Tories and they are ideologically opposed to changing the systemic poverty that forces people to buy unhealthy (but cheap) food.
But nobody expected Health Secretary Hancock to axe the organisation that was running it – Public Health England – while Johnson was on his holibobs in Scotland.
He has made no directions on how the initiative will proceed.
Hancock’s failure to realise that PHE has work other than the fight against Covid-19 signifies disastrous incompetence in a minister of the Crown.
And failure to acknowledge this and deliver an appropriate punishment – in this case, the removal of Hancock from ministerial duties – would signify disastrous incompetence in a Prime Minister.
Boris Johnson is back from his holibobs now.
What’s he going to do?
Source: UK anti-obesity fight ‘at risk’ after Matt Hancock closes health agency | Obesity | The Guardian
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