‘Fit towns’ my butt

Dear Alan Johnson,

Talk about disregard for the public’s intelligence.  Your latest initiative to try and convince us you are doing something to combat obesity is absolutely laughable.  Turning ‘eco-towns’ into ‘fit towns’ is going to have little or no effect on obesity in this country, trust me.

Regular weigh-ins at school will not change children’s diet or parents’ attitudes.  Cycle lanes take up space on already crowded roads so will be impossible to expand in crowded areas (which is most of the country) and the same goes for safe walking routes to school.  School programmes to “inspire” children to eating healthy food, learn to cook and play more sport sound half-decent, but seeing as you have already robbed the primary school curriculum of any creative or sports time thanks to mismanagement of education I seriously doubt that these programmes will ever happen.  Putting GP practices on the high street sounds nice in theory, but surely you know that the government has no control over GP’s and where they place their practices - so I’d like to see you try and implement this one.  ”Larger parks, modern playgrounds and improved leisure centres” will also suffer a quick and agonising death because any spare patch of land has flats built on it and local councils need the money desperately so will have no incentive to take up plots of land with playgrounds.

Honestly, what a pile of rubbish.

Yours in irritation,

A.Tory