It isn't Gordon Brown's clunking New Labour fist, or
the nanny state, or even the gastronomically correct food inspectors that are to blame, just a wary chef guarding his reputation in this sad Blame Culture era.
It won't take long for the fog of
the nanny state argument to clear, leaving all of us, former smokers included, able to fill our lungs with fresh air.
It was such interfering busybodies with
the nanny state mentality who stopped the exploitation of young children and women in the mining industry and who agitated for safer working conditions and less brutal hours in the mills and factories of the industrial revolution.
But the bid to provide support including a helpline, advice booklets and alternative methods of discipline have been described by opposition politicians as 'acting as
the nanny state' and 'verbal garbage.' Launching the Parenting Action Plan, education minister Jane Davidson said: 'When your child is very young you get support which goes after the health visitor signs off.'
The nanny state, now in an attitude of permanent terror over the possibility of being being sued and fined, wanted to stop swimmers.
Swimmers have won their High Court battle with '
the nanny state' over 'the right to take risks' and bathe in a natural pond on chilly winter mornings.
People giving out about
the Nanny State and sick of being told what to do.
THIS bid to ban smoking while driving is just another example of
the nanny state gone mad.
A MIDLAND council has been accused of taking
the nanny state too far - by protecting park users from falling fruit!
This is not something brought about by
the nanny state attempting to govern parental choice.
that means an active state, and so, on
the nanny state, I say bring it on.
'This is not
the nanny state - that makes it sound too cuddly.
John Cassidy, 28, bar supervisor, Benwell:
The nanny state has gone too far.
It should be cut out while people are young, but I don't think
the nanny state will ever be able to stop binge drinking amongst adults, because after working hard all week they need a release and to let their hair down.
Critics say it smacks of Big Brother and
the nanny State. They are wrong.