LONDON. “Anti-British”, “absurd”, “a disaster for small pubs”. The latest chapter of Boris Johnson’s recent healthy change unleashes criticism in the United Kingdom, which in recent days has taken a further step towards normality, namely the reopening, albeit only for outside service, of pubs, restaurants and bars afterwards. three and a half months of lockdown. Because the government, according to some documents seen by the Sun, seems willing to impose the exposure of calories and nutritional values even of pints of beer beloved by the British and the British.
And to think that Johnson years ago, when he was a correspondent from Brussels for the conservative newspaper Daily Telegraph, was the one who launched the ideological crusades against the “nanny state”, that is “the nanny state” then embodied by Europe, which “wanted to ban” to the British the shrimp cocktail chips and even “impose the curvature of bananas”. Now it is the prime minister who is accused of “nanny state” by the most conservative traditionalists, who do not want to see the nutritional information on the counter on beer dispensers, or possibly on the menu.
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It is not just an ethical and social problem. Even the association of English beer producers rebelled because this would constitute “an additional burden for all small managers of pubs and clubs already severely affected by the pandemic and at risk of closure”. A rule that has also found little application in other countries: in France and Germany, for example, there are no similar regulations, something has been tried to do in New York but the result has always been rather in no particular order and even the EU discusses time for common regulations on the issue.
Johnson’s health-conscious metamorphosis, on the other hand, does not seem to stop, even at the stimulus of his young girlfriend Carrie Symonds, environmentalist and animalist. Since the prime minister survived Covid, he has urged all citizens to lose weight, as he has been doing for several weeks now, due to the potential correlation between obesity and coronavirus mortality, and a squeeze is expected among other things. also on junk food, both as an advertisement and as a position (less exposed) in supermarkets. Who could ever expect this from the one who thundered from Brussels against the “nanny state”?
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