Don't pay people to lose weight

Yet another world beater from the British Government. Let's pay fat people - brilliant. I prostrate myself at the feet of the geniuses running our country. Do please give me a moment to halt my admiring clapping.

Isn't it incredibly selfish to reward fat people for loosing weight when it's their fault in the first place?

It really gets under my toned skin when I hear the "obese" whining about their self-inflicted weight issues.

Now before you get your flab in a twist I haven't got a problem with those that joyfully accept their weight or really do have valid reasons for being that way. But the truth is that the majority of those classed as "obese" have ate in on themselves.

At what point do these people look in the mirror and think, "I've really piled on the pounds lately maybe I should cut down a little?"

And then two months down the line they are staring into that same mirror and saying: "This is getting out of control now - how did that happen?"

Simple, you eat too much, don't do enough exercise and ignored all the early warning signs. Some of you may think I'm being harsh or cruel but I'm really not.

Why should healthily weighted people be punished for having the self-respect to look after themselves?

Whenever I see a bit of podge forming I can get rid of it within two weeks and I've witnessed obese people do the same. Maybe not in the same time scale, but they do it.

Eat less and exercise, it's that simple. People shouldn't need the incentive of payment to lose weight, they should want to lose it for themselves.

Simon Bunn, Cleobury Mortimer