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The former Tory Minister writes exclusively for the Daily Express
Make the obese pay for two plane seats, says ANN WIDDECOMBE
IF PEOPLE are so fat that they cannot fit into one seat on an aircraft, then they should be obliged to buy two seats so they can spill over in comfort and the rest of us can be spared being squashed by them.
By ANN WIDDECOMBE
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Obese people should be made to pay for an extra seat to avoid inconveniencing others
I write with feeling having spent four hours between Samoa and New Zealand with my arms stuck out in front of me, unable to use the armrests of my seat or to move freely because of the vastness of the people either side of me. I feel sorry for the very tall who cannot help being very tall and for whom economy section leg-room is just not designed but I am starting to lose it with the very obese. The seats are perfectly adequate for a very fat person and I know somebody who takes a dress size 24 and who fits compactly into the seat and does not need a seatbelt extension (just).
It is only the utterly gigantic who have a problem and they can help themselves in a way the unusually tall cannot. I can just hear now the cries of “discrimination” but they are not justified. I do not care how fat any adult is and I do not want to stop anybody travelling but at the point where it seriously affects other people’s wellbeing, then it is not asking too much to expect these two-ton Tessies to pay for two seats.
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A recent survey suggested around 58% of the UK population are either overweight or obese
Thank heaven my agent was canny enough to negotiate a business class deal for the flight home from Auckland. Otherwise I might have spent 23 hours too squashed to move – and nobody should be expected to endure that in the name of tolerance for those who abuse their own bodies.
Britain is pretty good at helping fatties. Derbyshire Fire Service has just spent £300,000 on a special crane to rescue fat people who get stuck. Those who become too vast to leave their own houses get angled out of windows into ambulances with special beds. People who wreck their joints, hearts and livers with overeating get treated by the NHS without demur.
Stoutist we are not. But I draw the line at allowing them to cause others to suffer needlessly.
This woman does not mince her words !!
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The former Tory Minister writes exclusively for the Daily Express
Make the obese pay for two plane seats, says ANN WIDDECOMBE
IF PEOPLE are so fat that they cannot fit into one seat on an aircraft, then they should be obliged to buy two seats so they can spill over in comfort and the rest of us can be spared being squashed by them.
By ANN WIDDECOMBE
GETTY
Obese people should be made to pay for an extra seat to avoid inconveniencing others
I write with feeling having spent four hours between Samoa and New Zealand with my arms stuck out in front of me, unable to use the armrests of my seat or to move freely because of the vastness of the people either side of me. I feel sorry for the very tall who cannot help being very tall and for whom economy section leg-room is just not designed but I am starting to lose it with the very obese. The seats are perfectly adequate for a very fat person and I know somebody who takes a dress size 24 and who fits compactly into the seat and does not need a seatbelt extension (just).
It is only the utterly gigantic who have a problem and they can help themselves in a way the unusually tall cannot. I can just hear now the cries of “discrimination” but they are not justified. I do not care how fat any adult is and I do not want to stop anybody travelling but at the point where it seriously affects other people’s wellbeing, then it is not asking too much to expect these two-ton Tessies to pay for two seats.
GETTY
A recent survey suggested around 58% of the UK population are either overweight or obese
Thank heaven my agent was canny enough to negotiate a business class deal for the flight home from Auckland. Otherwise I might have spent 23 hours too squashed to move – and nobody should be expected to endure that in the name of tolerance for those who abuse their own bodies.
Britain is pretty good at helping fatties. Derbyshire Fire Service has just spent £300,000 on a special crane to rescue fat people who get stuck. Those who become too vast to leave their own houses get angled out of windows into ambulances with special beds. People who wreck their joints, hearts and livers with overeating get treated by the NHS without demur.
Stoutist we are not. But I draw the line at allowing them to cause others to suffer needlessly.
This woman does not mince her words !!
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