Oats are one of the healthiest things you can eat, full of goodness, a great source of minerals, vitamins and fibre and also very filling and give you energy.

I start my day with a large bowl of porridge oats most mornings.

Yet Starmer's Labour Government is intending to ban the advertising of porridge before the watershed. I'm at a loss for words.

Government is no longer treating us like responsible sensible grown up adults like most of us actually are. At this rate before long when you go to a food shop half the contents will be hidden behind a curtain anonymous or in a locked cabinet like the tobacco is.

www.thesun.co.uk/health/32085727/porridg...ne-tv-child-obesity/

Rich wrote:
Oats are one of the healthiest things you can eat, full of goodness, a great source of minerals, vitamins and fibre and also very filling and give you energy.

I start my day with a large bowl of porridge oats most mornings.

Yet Starmer's Labour Government is intending to ban the advertising of porridge before the watershed. I'm at a loss for words.

Government is no longer treating us like responsible sensible grown up adults like most of us actually are. At this rate before long when you go to a food shop half the contents will be hidden behind a curtain anonymous or in a locked cabinet like the tobacco is.

www.thesun.co.uk/health/32085727/porridg...ne-tv-child-obesity/

I cant see that newspaper, Rich, but if they mean those sugary powdered things like Oats-So-Simple and whatever the monstrosities in plastic tubs are called. it might be reasonable.

I think it depends on the oats and how it's processed Rich, but Wes Streeting is another Labour moron with a speech impediment, it's becoming a running joke. I do love a yoghurt and a piece of fruit in the morning. I would eat porridge over cereal, to be honest.

Have they already banned honey advertising yet, haven't seen a honey ad for a long time.

Yes plain oats are in the clear, let us thank Keir Cromwell for that small mercy. But have faith: he knows what is best for us and we will be made perfect.

Make the most of this Christmas. It may be our last until after the Counter Revolution...

Honey wrote:
I cant see that newspaper, Rich, but if they mean those sugary powdered things like Oats-So-Simple and whatever the monstrosities in plastic tubs are called. it might be reasonable.
The article says:
...Sweetened varieties of the breakfast favourite, like golden syrup and fruity flavours, will be prohibited from TV ads before 9 pm. ...Plain oats are in the clear...
The government imposed a percentage restriction - or maybe it was just a recommendation, can't remember - on sugar levels in breakfast cereals years ago, I think it might even have been under Tony Blair, so I don't see this advertising restriction to reduce obesity in children as a big deal.

Goldilocks story to be changed from 3 bowls of porridge to Teriyaki root vegetable salad with crispy tofu.

Wyot wrote:
Yes plain oats are in the clear, let us thank Keir Cromwell for that small mercy. But have faith: he knows what is best for us and we will be made perfect.

Make the most of this Christmas. It may be our last until after the Counter Revolution...

I agree Wyot, I know Atheists that still like Christmas for the time off work and seeing family. They still wish people a Merry Christmas because it's polite and people do Christmas their way if they are not traditional. To me it's a break from work, indulging and seeing family. So yes, it is a merry time for me.

I remember the New York Jews, who still wished people a Merry Christmas. Starmer is Jewish but Christ he is a miserable git.

When Starmers counted from five for the lights, it showed he is on the spectrum by the way he was counting. We all counted from five when we watched Thunderbirds.

If he wants to reduce obesity he could start in his own ranks and have a word in the ear of the Foreign Secretary.

How come all those of us who grew up in previous decades as children, in my case the 70's and 80's, seemed to be quite fit children and in any physical education class you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who was even remotely overweight ever, and boys often had to go shirt free with a bare chest a lot then and were lean and trim with very little obesity in evidence, this despite the fact we were being bombarded and deliberately targeted with sweets and chocolate ads every night during kids TV, never mind all evening too.

I can still remember all the choccy bar and sweets ads, and the catchphrases that went with them. Mars - "A mars a day, helps you work rest and play", Milky Way - "The treat you can eat between meals", Fudge "A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat, it's full of Cadbury goodness", Marathon, Bounty, Yorkie and the sweets, "Made to make your mouth water" for Opal Fruits to name just a few.

It's not about eating these things, it's about activity levels. Where do we ever hear government initiatives about getting children active. PE in school has been cut back in favour of yet more time sitting at desks.

Activity probably has a lot to do with it as well as food quality. Not as much processed food or ready meals back then, or microwaves. Perhaps parents would have been more likely to cook from scratch and school meals may have been more available and nutritious.

(2022) School meals in the UK: ultra-processed, unequal and inadequate
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11077439/

Porridge advertising is not going to be banned.

and neither is Christmas


Stope reading the daily mail

I like the BBB take on this. Labour needs to look at the poisons in milk, I do drink herbal teas so I don't drink milk.

When I did the mid-week shop last night, everyone was avoiding the Arla brand milk. I think Cadbury has also added the milk poison in their brands now.

Cadbury sweets have been crap ever since they were taken over by the Yanks.

The government needs to know that children don't belong to them but we know the government wish they do own kids.

Children do not pick what they want to eat, their parents do and parents also buy what they can afford. You see plenty of single mothers, buying the own brand stuff and doing mental maths in their heads with each item.

Explaining to kids about budgeting and money is an impossible task. I did ask my parents when I was 12 how much they make a year. It didn't go well.

I feel sorry for mothers with no cooking skills, having a child they didn't want probably from a one-night stand by some dim-witted wannabe Lothario they met online to break the boredom. Then feeding the child crisps or processed frozen foods from Poundland. They are doing their best but they are sadly harming the child.

Green Man wrote:
Wyot wrote:
Yes plain oats are in the clear, let us thank Keir Cromwell for that small mercy. But have faith: he knows what is best for us and we will be made perfect.

Make the most of this Christmas. It may be our last until after the Counter Revolution...

I agree Wyot, I know Atheists that still like Christmas for the time off work and seeing family. They still wish people a Merry Christmas because it's polite and people do Christmas their way if they are not traditional. To me it's a break from work, indulging and seeing family. So yes, it is a merry time for me.

I remember the New York Jews, who still wished people a Merry Christmas. Starmer is Jewish but Christ he is a miserable git.

When Starmers counted from five for the lights, it showed he is on the spectrum by the way he was counting. We all counted from five when we watched Thunderbirds.

Starmer is not Jewish.

The exact opposite!

Downing Street Cat wrote:
Goldilocks story to be changed from 3 bowls of porridge to Teriyaki root vegetable salad with crispy tofu.

Honey wrote:
Green Man wrote:
Wyot wrote:
Yes plain oats are in the clear, let us thank Keir Cromwell for that small mercy. But have faith: he knows what is best for us and we will be made perfect.

Make the most of this Christmas. It may be our last until after the Counter Revolution...

I agree Wyot, I know Atheists that still like Christmas for the time off work and seeing family. They still wish people a Merry Christmas because it's polite and people do Christmas their way if they are not traditional. To me it's a break from work, indulging and seeing family. So yes, it is a merry time for me.

I remember the New York Jews, who still wished people a Merry Christmas. Starmer is Jewish but Christ he is a miserable git.

When Starmers counted from five for the lights, it showed he is on the spectrum by the way he was counting. We all counted from five when we watched Thunderbirds.

Starmer is not Jewish.

The exact opposite!


Starmer is Jewish, you can do go down your own rabbit holes to look in to that.

Green Man wrote:
Honey wrote:
Green Man wrote:
Wyot wrote:
Yes plain oats are in the clear, let us thank Keir Cromwell for that small mercy. But have faith: he knows what is best for us and we will be made perfect.

Make the most of this Christmas. It may be our last until after the Counter Revolution...

I agree Wyot, I know Atheists that still like Christmas for the time off work and seeing family. They still wish people a Merry Christmas because it's polite and people do Christmas their way if they are not traditional. To me it's a break from work, indulging and seeing family. So yes, it is a merry time for me.

I remember the New York Jews, who still wished people a Merry Christmas. Starmer is Jewish but Christ he is a miserable git.

When Starmers counted from five for the lights, it showed he is on the spectrum by the way he was counting. We all counted from five when we watched Thunderbirds.

Starmer is not Jewish.

The exact opposite!


Starmer is Jewish, you can do go down your own rabbit holes to look in to that.

I did. Starmer is Brer Rabbit, in my opinion.

Starmer is not jewish as far as I can make out, unless this is another one of his big secrets he's hiding from the public like his Cecil Parkinson style behaviour as well that the media are refusing to report on. His wife is though, although he says his children are not. Unless he's being dishonest for political reasons. Nothing would surprise me about him. One of the biggest liars there has ever been in politics, he could teach Boris a thing or two.