If you want to tackle obesity, Fearne, lead by example and start with the cabinet

Chris Fearne, who replaced Konrupt Mizzi as Health Minister (but nobody was allowed to replace Konrupt as Energy Minister, which tells us that the hospital deals were done, but there’s still a lot of money to be made in energy) has been out and about, hectoring people about obesity and saying that it costs the country €45 to €50 million a year.

This is rich, coming from somebody who sits in cabinet with four conspicuously obese people – Edward ‘ED ZL’ Zammit Lewis, Manuel Mallia, Helena Dalli and Deborah Schembri – and who, presumably, discusses with them at their cabinet meetings ways and means to tackle obesity and cut down on the €45 to €50 million bill so that they might have more money to spend on putting their mates on the public payroll, like the fantastically obese Glenn Bedingfield who sits down the hall from those cabinet meetings.

What does Fearne imagine that obese people think when the government nags them about their weight, and then they look up to see Mrs Dalli and Ms Schembri bouncing and billowing about while ED ZL’s prosperous-looking belly enters rooms before he does, Mr Mallia’s girth exceeds his height, and Mr Bedingfield’s neck has been AWOL for years and his chin is suspected of having eaten it?