Call me lard arse, it may save my life
GPs and other health professionals should tell people they are fat bastards rather than obese, England’s public health minister says.
Anne Milton said the term fat bastard was more likely to motivate them into losing weight.
“It’s a bit like telling kids they’re stupid,” she told The News Grind today, “It soon perks them up and gets them studying harder.”
She said it was important people took “personal responsibility” for their lifestyles.
But health experts said the word could stigmatise those who are overweight.
“Well those f*ckers would, wouldn’t they?” she said. “We should call them health f*ckwits and arsecandles, it’ll soon bring them back into line.”
Ms Milton, who stressed she was speaking in a personal capacity, said: “If I look in the mirror and think I am obese I think I am less worried [than] if I think I am a fat bastard.”
She said too many staff working in the NHS were worried about using the term, but suggested it could help encourage “personal responsibility”.
But Professor Lionel Davids, president of the UK Public Health Forum, hit back at the claims.
“If Ms Milton took a look in the mirror she wouldn’t see a fat person,” he said. “She would however see a hatchet faced old goat.
“Would she take more personal responsibility if we referred to her as the Minger of Parliament for Guildford? Maybe it would get her to sort that hair out for a start.”
Professor Simon Flint, of the Royal College of GPs, said he agreed with Ms Milton and already tried to use the term ‘fat bastard’ and lard arse as much as he could.
“I think the term obese medicalises the state. It makes it a third person issue. I think we need to sometimes be more brutal and honest.
“You can be popular by saying the things people want to hear and in the NHS we too often do that when we should be spelling things out clearly.”
From now on the disabled will be dubbed “lazy cripples,” mental health patients “F*cking mentalists” and the deaf “anything you want because the can’t hear you,” laughed Prof Field.
