Health Minister Jonathan Coleman Stand Down Please – Obesity to the Police State.

Nanny statism has its strongest foothold in the Health Ministry (and medical commissariat at Dunedin University). Our Big Brother of Health, Jonathan Coleman, has spent the last year coming up with this:

More than 60 per cent of pregnant women gain more weight than is recommended, which has implications for a child's weight later in life.

It's the reason the Government will be targeting women in the perinatal stage - before and after birth - as part of a major programme to hone the growing waistlines of New Zealanders.

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has confirmed he will announce his package - nearly a year in the making - later on Monday. 

Launching the policy this afternoon, he told RadioLive:

#rtpt Health Minister Jonathan Coleman: "This package follows a life course, right from conception, through school and into adulthood"

— RadioLIVE Newsroom (@LIVENewsDesk) October 19, 2015

Well done Jonathan, thanks to you being clueless on history you’ve re-invented totalitarianism.

I know your worry is that fatties, like smokers, are a drain on public health, but even were that true it is only the argument for privatising health so individuals reap the consequences of their life choices. But you’re not even right: a long range Dutch study conclusively shows that fatties and smokers are less cost on a public health system as they die early and quickly (example, heart attacks), whereas the humourless devotees of long-lived low calorie lives linger on to stink up the place, having more points of contact with the health system, and dying of long-lasting, expensive diseases such as dementia, cancer, et al.

So the fatties are saving us money. Which is why every excise on alcohol, tobacco and soon, sugar and fat, is wrong headed from the get-go.

Please, enough is enough; go rent a chilling, but superb movie called The Lives of Others - you're in it - have a wee lie down, then hand in your badge. You’re a menace to my freedom.