Boris was over 17 stone when he was admitted to hospital

and 18 when he came out, foie grois must have been up to speed

so the right wing loons who assured us doris was as fit as a fiddle based on matching Cameron at tennis was a lie,them pesky right wingers will be telling us next, mr gove doesn't really run 12 miles around the park every morning

ann widicombe will be along shortly to tell us he,s big boned

OBVIOUSLY STRONGER THEN THE BAME MOB

Boris Johnson to launch war on fat after coronavirus scare
It’s all right for you thinnies, PM tells staff as he accepts obesity increases risk from Covid-19
Steven Swinford, Deputy Political Editor
Friday May 15 2020, 9.00am, The Times

Boris Johnson weighed 17 and a half stone before he was admitted to hospital
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Boris Johnson is preparing a “much more interventionist” drive to tackle obesity as part of the fight against coronavirus after his spell in hospital with the disease.

The prime minister told senior ministers and advisers, “I’ve changed my mind on this” and that he was drawing up a new strategy.

Research has found that being obese doubles the risk of needing hospital treatment for coronavirus. About one in three British adults is clinically obese, classified as those with a body mass index (BMI) above 30. It is one of the highest rates in the western world.

Mr Johnson is understood to be convinced that the reason he ended up in intensive care was because of his weight, which was 17 and a half stone before he was admitted to hospital. BMI is determined by a person’s weight relative to their height. At 5ft 9in, Mr Johnson’s score will have been about 36.

Obesity is a risk factor for other health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, which are also known to increase vulnerability to Covid-19.


Figures released by the health service yesterday revealed that a quarter of coronavirus patients who have died in hospitals in England had diabetes.

In a column for The Times, James Forsyth, political editor of The Spectator, disclosed that the prime minister remarked “it’s all right for you thinnies” when discussing the disease in Downing Street. Mr Johnson believes that the pandemic provides an opportunity for the government to reinforce the message that people need to lead healthy lives. He is said to be “obsessed” with encouraging more people to cycle to work and believes it is a good moment to “get Britain on its bike”.

In other developments:

• The number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK rose by 428 to 33,616, while 233,151 people have tested positive for the disease.

• A total of 126,064 tests were carried out on Wednesday, the highest number so far, surpassing Matt Hancock’s daily testing target of 100,000.

• London’s transport system was given a £1.6 billion government bailout after Sadiq Khan, the mayor, threatened to cut bus and Tube services.

• Lord Blunkett, a former Labour education secretary, accused teaching unions of working against the interests of children by opposing plans to reopen schools.

• Ministers were told that up to eight million people would be waiting for NHS treatment by the autumn as hospitals struggled to cope with pressures caused by coronavirus.

• Frontline healthcare workers will be the first of hundreds of thousands to be given a new “game-changing” antibody test.

Mr Johnson’s suggestion that he wants a more “interventionist” approach comes despite his longstanding criticism of the “nanny state”.

The sugar tax came into effect in April 2018 and added 18p or 24p to a litre of soft drink, depending on its sugar content. Some ministers are pushing for the levy to be extended.

Mr Johnson pledged to review “sin taxes” during the Conservative leadership campaign, a move that put him at odds with Mr Hancock, who is now his health secretary. Mr Hancock has argued that the sugar tax has been a “total triumph”.

In a sign that the prime minister is focusing on the future, he told government advisers that he wanted them to concentrate on the “recovery agenda” and fulfil the “people’s priorities”.

He highlighted the Conservative manifesto pledges, including 20,000 more police officers and a promise to build 40 hospitals.

“He was optimistic and focused on the future, on getting back to the levelling-up agenda,” a source said. During David Cameron’s first conference as party leader Mr Johnson backed mothers who were pushing pies through school railings in protest at a healthy eating drive.

Earlier this week it was reported that when Mr Johnson was asked how to avoid coronavirus, he replied: “Don’t be a fatty in your fifties.”

One of his longstanding advisers said that the prime minister’s own battle with his waistline gives him “permission to speak” to voters about the need to lose weight. During his stint as foreign secretary between 2016 and 2018 he was eating a lot while flying between countries.

The prime minister has also written about his “delicious late-night binges of chorizo and cheese”. He is said to have lost a stone since coming out of hospital a month ago.

A government review is analysing how factors including obesity, ethnicity and gender can affect the impact of the coronavirus on people’s health. Ministers believe that tackling obesity will become increasingly important because Britain is likely to have to live with the virus until a vaccine is developed.

Of the 22,332 patients who have died since March 31, when pre-existing conditions began to be reported, 26 per cent had type 1 or type 2 diabetes, and 18 per cent had dementia. Some 15 per cent were reported to have chronic pulmonary disease and 1,549 had asthma.

Despite Mr Johnson’s pledge to look towards the recovery stage of the crisis, Labour has said that the clarity of the government’s message has been eroded in recent weeks. “The message until last week had been very clear: stay at home to protect lives and the NHS,” Rachel Reeves, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, said.

“That clarity of message and that consistency of message has been eroded in the last week because we now have different approaches in different nations in the United Kingdom. I think that does cause some confusion and risks the rules being misinterpreted in different parts of the country.”

Boris looked like he had lost a good bit of weight last time he was on the box imo.

I would never have guessed he was that much - god knows how much he weighed in his "pomp" a few years ago - 20+ stone?

I heard he was pumping Dom's missus...but sneaky Dom was secretly filming it and will use it to blackmail Bojo.

Apparently Don is 6 foot 3 and Boris 5 foot 9
However if you look at photos of them together there doesn't seem to be 6 inches different

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jucel it's all statistics.
As this is a gambling site, I do marvel (and I'm not having a go at you btw, the following is not intended that way!) at how statistics are ignored by chit chat ranters :)
I.e. if the stats said
White horses 90% of winning
Black horses 10% of winning
I know how they'd bet.
But some chit chatters are of the liking to say
"I knew a bloke who drunk a bottle of Whisky day until he was 80, drinkng isn't bad! Doctors are full of it!".

You are nuts.

No, I've observed (as I'm sure have others if they are remotely observant) that on every thread that even touches on the SNP, you are rather strangely in there like a fly to sh1t.

Making the joke
"And apparently, given she's 22 stone in stocking soles with the weights of the chips on her shoulders, Sturgeon is a severe corona risk."

Does not mean I'm insane. To suggest I am is beyond pathetic. And to point out what I just said opening sentence (and above) is spot on.
Try harder, you've been rumbled and don't like it one bit do you.

you,ve got to love the media running with this story ,virtue signalling ,the one thing ive learned during this lockdown is how out of touch I am,the uk/world is addicted to fast food ,think about it 24 hrs a day,queuing around the block for fried chicken, every advert advertising fast food for nhs/social care/essential workers,people delivering heart attack on a plate  are even been included in the clapping on thurs nights

Result :)