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I think Labour have bitten off more than they can chew with this:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35671855/wes-streeting-more-access-fab-jabs-economy/

BRITAIN will be “fat free” within a decade, paving the way for tax cuts worth billions of pounds, Wes Streeting declared yesterday.

People will be fat free or dead if the jabs have some inherent vice only revealed by Streetings mass beta test.

People have got overweight and under-fit by eating crap between meals - that only builds appetite not stops it - and zero exercise. And there’s some simple cheat that makes them fit and well?

Nope. God has told us over and over there are no simple “cheats” to wellness and resilience - if you want happiness it must be earned.

Living in LA, almost everyone is on ozempic. And one of the things I've noticed is that people taking it often cut their drinking back massively, and start exercising. When you are already overweight, exercise is tough and uncomfortable. Once you've lost a few kilograms (thanks to the magic of semiglutide), exercise becomes that much easier.

I'm pretty thin and I still can't be arsed.

Get yourself an exercise bike. You can grab a second hand peloton for like £700 off Facebook marketplace. Honestly, it's changed my life. I feel so much better since starting back up, I sleep better, I'm able to run around and keep up with my kids, I've lost weight (and best of all big improvement in sex life due to better stamina).

Exercise is without a doubt the best medicine. I wish the government would start forcing the fat and lazy to get on the bike rather than just sticking them on PIP. We keep giving people an easy way out.

People say it all the time, but if there was pill that gave you the feeling you get after some exercise, with the same lack of side effects, it would be worth a fortune... and that's without the longer term benefits it gives you. But people who don't exercise are ludicrously difficult to get started.

There probably won't be for quite a while, as there are so many metabolic pathways involved.

Ever so ofter, there's hype around some molecule - the latest being this one (which has been known about for a decade at least).

Can a pill replace exercise? Swigging this molecule gives mice benefits of working out
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01994-0

The benefits are usually overhyped, and risks (there are studies which suggest a possible cancer risk for this one) underplayed.

No, the hype around Semaglutide and Tirzepide is kosher, a real breakthrough.

The number of people that I see in my diabetic clinics who have shed weight of several stones is now a routine, often having failed on various diets for years. In addition it has anti-inflammatory properties so often back and knee pain is better even before weight loss occurs, hence allowing a much more active lifestyle.

Yes. They absolutely work

My sister has struggled with her weight all her life. Miserably. After 8 months of wegovy (or whatever) and she is - for the first time in many years - a healthy weight and she also seems calmer, somehow. Mellower

Hard to put a finger on it but it’s done something positive to her persona as well as her BMI. Maybe because she’s stopped self loathing?

They work. Wes is right. Dish them out

Good news if you are also eating a healthy diet.

Be on those medications and stick with a rich, fatty diet and the evidence is starting to point towards significant risk of pancreas trouble - which no-one sensible would volunteer for.

I eat an absurdly healthy diet. And have done for ages

I adore fish and love to cook healthy meals at home. Nothing processed if I can help it. Cook from raw. I avoid takeaways universally (unless forced) and even in restaurants I’m careful and wary

I think eating wholesome tucker is what has kept me healthy despite all the boozing and my earlier life on drugs

Don’t smoke either. Exercise a LOT. (I’ve just done a 9 mile walk here in the Rhodopes)

Find Out Now voting intention:
🟦 Reform UK: 30% (-)
🔴 Labour: 22% (-)
🔵 Conservatives: 16% (-2)
🟠 Lib Dems: 15% (+2)
🟢 Greens: 11% (-)

Changes from 25th June
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PB Tories were right. So much winning.

How many PB Tories are no longer PB Tories?

Indeed leftwingers are still in denial on here half the PB Tories are now PB Reformers

"PB Tory" is an identity not a voting preference. It's not easily shed.

Peak PB Tory was early in May’s 2017 election campaign, when PB was like Clarkson Island for PB Tories. Once she unveiled some of her more imaginative policy ideas, the infestation of PB Tories abated considerably, and has never recovered.

Just before my time, that. What a pity. Sounds epic.

2017 was when posters were confidently predicting 400+ Tory seats just before 10 pm.
Then loudly berating the worst opinion poll in history.

Didn't we have a Tory canvasser who was thoroughly miserable in the runup to '17 as what he was hearing on the ground didn't match the narrative?

David Herdson i think. He absolutely raged on here after canvassing the day before polling day saying shes blown it. He was livid

Good morning, everyone.

If Starmer sacks his lightning rod he creates a vacancy.

I wouldn't discount the possibility of her resigning.

I also wouldn't entirely discount the possibility of her remaining in post.

Yup.

UK government bonds rally after Starmer says Reeves will remain for ‘a long time’

https://x.com/FT/status/1940668547677487375

I think that is the most likely outcome to be honest. Starmer is a ruthless, selfish twat who has little hesitation in throwing other passengers overboard to save his own skin but he will be aware that losing a Chancellor all too often leads to the PM going too. He will try to dig in for his own sake, not hers.