OBESE mum Mikaela Carvill has turned her life around.
She went from 23 stone to 13st 7lbs.
She eats better, exercises more and has transformed her sex life.
Great.
But her decision to cheat the health service to achieve all this is an example of the entitlement culture Britain must break.
The NHS sets an obesity limit below which patients are not entitled to a gastric bypass.
That didn’t suit Mikaela. So she devised a sneaky and complex plan to get taxpayers to pay £15,000 for it anyway.
It is a pity she failed to show as much determination in losing weight through her own efforts.
Yet she insists she “deserves” the op because “I have paid taxes all my life”.
But, Mikaela, tax and national insurance are not an investment plan. They’re an insurance policy.
You should no more expect a return on them than you would expect a car insurer to buy you a new motor when the current one’s worn out.
The rules Mikaela flouted are there to save money for a health service in dire straits and staring at a £30billion shortfall within five years.
Not all obese people have themselves to blame, but most do.
They should not expect the state to sort them out and cheat if it won’t.
Off her chest
WHEN you ponder Karen Danczuk’s greatest assets, her political punditry doesn’t instantly spring to mind.
But the Rochdale MP’s wife is bang on when she says her own Labour Party has been hijacked by middle-class do-gooders clueless about the working class they claim to represent.
She’s also right about the damaging evolution of the career politician.
But Labour isn’t alone in that. It afflicts all three main parties.
The seamless rise of the Oxbridge graduate from “special adviser” into MP and Cabinet minister has been a disaster for our democracy and contributed much to the current loathing of politicians.
Like Karen, we long for a new generation of talent in Westminster with experience of working life outside it.
Mili banned
BEARS hibernate in winter. Ed Miliband should perhaps do likewise and re-emerge only on May 8 after the election.
Labour’s Scottish leader Jim Murphy has apparently told him to keep out of Scotland in case he gifts any more votes to the SNP.
Which makes us wonder in which areas south of the border he’d be an asset to his party. It’s not a long list.
He might be better keeping his Ed down.
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