OK - I've had enough. The Government gags us and creates laws limiting our freedom when it comes to discriminating against people on grounds of race, creed, disability and sexual orientation but it seems that other abused minorities, such as the overweight, can go hang so far as they are concerned.

They are so busy blaming the overweight themselves for all their problems and starting schemes which are doomed to failure, that one wonders exactly WHAT expert opinion they have been taking advice from.

The fact of the matter is that the very people they SHOULD be consulting are the people AFFECTED; people whose lives have been blighted by a problem that is FAR MORE complex than simple gluttony or laziness (which doesn't, contrary to common belief, even come into it for a great percentage of the overweight population).

People like ME.

However, I'm not holding my breath for someone like Gordon Brown or David Cameron to call and ask me what the REAL basis of the problem is because I suspect that they wouldn't like the answer.

So I'm starting this site because I have to tell it like it IS in this so called enlightened society of ours - if only, one of these days, to be able to say 'I told you so'.

And while I'm at it.... I'll have a go at a lot of other stuff that irritates the HELL out of me. You think you've heard me 'sing' before - trust me, you ain't heard 'nothin' yet!