Avid and intelligent readers of this place (qualities not incompatible I aver) will recall that some while hence H and I both asserted how sensible it would be if commercial enterprises would begin to lay an imposition on fat people for the cost to their businesses.
This was on the back of a silly suggestion that people who were obese should be paid to lose weight. Cash in hand no less for resisting the urge to stuff their faces with yet more meat pies etc.
We rebelled, did H and I, at such nonsense, proposing rather the more assertive notion that if being wilfully fat added to the burden of society - as it must - then due recompense should be exacted.
Hurrah now to discover that precisely this is to occur. At least two airlines - one American, one European - are to charge the fatties more for travelling on their aeroplanes. Quite right too. More space taken, more inconvenience to fellow passengers, more fuel consumed. Why not then a bob or two on the price?
Could indeed this be poor Alistair Darling's way out of our economic mess and misery? Forget a 50% tax on high earners, instead a body-weight tax on the fatties. If we're to talk 'green investment' as it seems doomed we are so to do, then let us begin.
Strikes me, mind you, that our Gordo has been looking a mite more podgy of late. Should we not start as we mean to go on?
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