The announcement today that the Government are finally banning junk
food from our schools comes as a profound relief to all of us with
young children. My David and Davina are only four years old, yet I have
watched with increasing concern as they have come home from nursery
school with their stomachs lined with naught but chocolate, chips and
coke. It is high time that busy mothers were allowed to relax, content
in the knowledge that their little ones will not be fed poison - yes,
poison! - by the uncaring ogres to whom we entrust them. Education tsar
Ruth Kelly should bask proudly in the praise her unique
vision will surely afford her, and no expense must be spared in making
that vision reality.
We are constantly told that our prisons are overcrowded, and yet
in the past month at least two old age pensioners have been sent to
jail for the 'crime' of not paying their council tax. When the law is
patently such an ass, it must be abolished. Is anyone else as mystified
as I regarding what this 'tax' actually pays for, anyway?
Finally, on a lighter note, my warmest thanks and deepest appreciation
to those who have bothered to comment on my musings. As Matthew often
says, to those of us in the public eye it is you - all of you - who are
the cattle that give we, the shepherds, a meaning.
Thank You.
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