{"id":2192,"date":"2009-10-21T23:58:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T22:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2013-11-29T00:15:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T00:15:38","slug":"you-fat-bastard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2192","title":{"rendered":"You. Fat. Bastard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is going to make me unpopular. That&#8217;s a cross I can bear for speaking my mind.<\/p>\n<p>One person &#8211; just one person &#8211; has been costing this country over \u00a3100,000\/year, every year, for a spell of greater than 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Is this person a Member of Parliament claiming a full set of expenses and allowances?<\/p>\n<p>No, actually this person is unemployed, yet has so far cost the British Taxpayer over \u00a31,000,00.00p, on what is a continuing spend.<\/p>\n<p>Is this person Royalty?<\/p>\n<p>No, despite costing this country the annual equivalent of a minor Royal, this person is one of the proletariat.<\/p>\n<p>Does this person have major physical or mental disabilities that require intensive, round-the-clock care and support?<\/p>\n<p>No, this person has no physical or mental disabilities. He does, however, require substantial care and support.<\/p>\n<p>This person is Mr Paul Mason, a 48-year-old from Ipswich, Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p>The reason Paul Mason costs the British Taxpayer over \u00a3100,000\/year is his weight. Paul Mason weighs 70 stone. That&#8217;s 980 pounds, or 445 kilos. Or half a metric ton.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported (and I&#8217;m deliberately using these careful words because, as we know, the British press is very adept at conjuring up &#8216;statements&#8217; from thin air), that Mr Mason does not want to lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>What I can report with absolute certainty is that just three years ago Paul Mason weighed a mere 50 stone (that&#8217;s 700 pounds or 318 kilos). So in 36 months this gargantuan person has added an additional 20 stone (280 pounds\/127 kilos) to what was his &#8211; even back then &#8211; morbidly obese frame to become classified by Suffolk Health Authority as &#8216;Super Obese&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>A 20 stone (280 pound\/127 kilo) increase in 36 months?<\/p>\n<p>That is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>And something else that&#8217;s ridiculous is spending \u00a3100,000\/year on keeping this person&#8217;s life <strong>comfortable<\/strong> or, to put it another way, spending over \u00a31,000,000 on <strong>maintaining <\/strong>Mr Mason&#8217;s ability to continue over-eating.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of giving this guy so much financial aid and physical support the Health Authority, Local Authority, Central Government and Benefits Agency should all be turning off the fiscal tap that is pouring food in to Paul Mason&#8217;s overworked gullet.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of supporting his lifestyle they should be invoking severe and critical intervention; should be putting this person in to a position where he has to <strong>stop <\/strong>over-eating and, with help, commence a <strong>fitter lifestyle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If Paul Mason wants to eat himself to death (which is plainly his choice) then he should be allowed to carry out that act; however the British Taxpayer should not be assisting him in his bid to commit suicide by food, because that cannot be legal.<\/p>\n<p>If, however, Paul Mason wants to change for the better, I&#8217;m all for the provision of intervention to facilitate that.<\/p>\n<p>And before anyone says that Paul Mason has an illness I&#8217;ll just say one thing.<\/p>\n<p>Bollocks.<\/p>\n<p>He is no more &#8216;ill&#8217; than a habitual nail-biter. His compulsion to eat and eat and eat and eat and eat is just down to a lack of willpower which is only equalled by his complete and utter lack of interest to take &#8211; in his earlier years &#8211; any form of physical exercise. It&#8217;s just down to laziness and a surplus of very bad food.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990 Paul Mason weighed 30 stone (420 pounds\/191 kilos), yet in the space of less than a year he shed 1\/3rd of that tremendous weight; not through the sudden desire to take healthy exercise, but because he was in prison for a year for stealing mail when he worked as a postman.<\/p>\n<p>Now that is positive intervention &#8211; 30% weight loss in a year? That&#8217;s the kind of help and support that Paul Mason needs.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Mason is a fat, lazy person.<\/p>\n<p>Is this awful of me?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it is, but balance that statement with the simple fact that the physicians in the Health Authority can find no health-related reason for Mr Mason&#8217;s chronic over-indulgence.<\/p>\n<p>But what is even more awful is that <strong>each year<\/strong> for the last ten years the equivalent of <strong>three <\/strong>Nursing Sisters&#8217; salaries has been spent <strong>supporting<\/strong> Mr Mason in his attempt to live off the fat of the British Taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>And that one, simple, fiscal fact is, frankly, even more obscene than he is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2194\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2194\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2194\" title=\"PaulMason\" alt=\"PaulMason\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/PaulMason.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is going to make me unpopular. That&#8217;s a cross I can bear for speaking my mind. 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