Jacqui Smith Is Picked On For Being Fat

EARLIER this week, Jacqui Smith complained that she was being picked on - picked on because she is a woman.

Poor Jacqui. Had she been only a little less vain. You see, the Mail has news:

Why being fat harms a woman’s career (but not a man’s)

A Mark Roehling has studied fat at Michigan State University, in the US. He tells us:

“The results suggest that while being obese limits the career opportunities of both women and men, being merely overweight harms only female executives - and may actually benefit male executives.”

We love our fat politicians, all roly-poly and trustworthy. When Nigel Lawson was fat he was Chancellor. Then he got thin and disappeared. Jacqui should have embraced her girth and said that her husband was whiling away the hours before their next meeting by tuning into Fat And Lovin’ It and More Cushion For The Pushin’.

If John Prescott had been thin, we’d never have warmed to him as he cleared the deask of empty crisp wrappers to make room for his secretary and biscuits. Fat we can forgive.

When politicians talk of diet and getting fit we eye them with suspicion.

Charles Clarke wa useless but his fatness makes him likeable. Kenneth Clarke keeps bouncing back. Both were Home Secretaries. John Reid, another recent Home Secretary, was not fat and not thin and looked insecure. And David Blunkett made you unsure if he was really blind, a menacing thin presence in tweed and fundamentalist beard.

Jack Straw, another former HS, has tinnitus.

Being Home Secretary is an equal opportunities role that lends itself to disabilities. But being fat is the path to understanding.

And if Jacqui can keep eating the kebabs and getting the munchies, she might yet survive.

Anorak

Posted: 9th, April 2009 | In: Politicians Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink