Britons have torn apart Chancellor Rachel Reeves's plans to implement a "milkshake tax" as part of the Government's latest attempt at tackling obesity.Reeves has reportedly claimed that the products have a "damaging impact" on the public's health, with obesity rates in the country rising from 14.9 per cent in 1993 to 28.9 per cent in 2022.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00It's disgusting. It is disgusting. It's too expensive already. I don't like it at all.
00:05People are getting obese in it, but we definitely need to reduce the tax because it's too expensive.
00:11Very expensive, but you know what I mean? Everything's expensive now, isn't it?
00:15It's raising. It's not good.
00:18So you don't support it?
00:19No, I don't support it at all.
00:21I think it depends on the way they are looking at it.
00:24So when you increase the price of milkshake, number one, it can deny a lot of people that see milkshake as a treat.
00:32And we will not encourage a system that will deny people what they love to take.
00:39And for me personally, I think when they are denied such opportunity or it's not affordable or within their reach,
00:45that can escalate the issue of mental health the way I'm seeing it.
00:49Then the other side of it is that it will be a wonderful and good thing to encourage people to live an healthier life.
00:57So we can look for a way to encourage people to live an healthier life without putting up a system that appears punitive.
01:07And so I just feel that would be a great way.
01:10Yes, it's good. We need to encourage people to lose weight, but at the same time, not stigmatising those that we can feel maybe they are under what you call a bay city.
01:24Everybody should be free to live a free life the way they love to live it.
01:28So that's just what I see about it.
01:31I can understand why they're doing it.
01:32I think it's a bit silly.
01:36You know, there's other ways around, like, avoiding obesity rather than putting sugar taxes on things like milkshake.
01:44I think it's probably one of the more minor things that they could put a tax on.
01:49You know, there's all the, like, sweets and stuff.
01:52Milkshake, I don't think it's really that much of a big factor.
01:54We go to the milk where, like, once a week I've got three young children and they love going there.
01:59So, yeah, it'd be a big effect on us.
02:03We see it as, like, a day out, so depending on the sugar tax, that might take it away from us.
02:09It'd be a jerk, to be fair, wouldn't it?
02:11They've done it to a lot of them, like the Kirk and everything.
02:14Being unfair to us all, putting prices on everything, it's disgusting.
02:19And they say they're doing it to try and combat obesity.
02:23Do you agree with that?
02:25No, I don't agree with that, no.
02:27You can get fat anywhere.
02:32You can sit there and eat munch all day and crisp and everything, get fat.
02:36And they're going to put tax on food next.
02:39That's what the next bit's going to be.
02:41How would it impact you?
02:44Well, I won't be able to get my caramel frappies.
02:47Well, I think the tax is going across the border and everything in order to raise money.
02:51And I think obesity is very much air-targeted as one of the weaknesses in what's happening,
02:58so the government can pick on that type of thing.
03:01As many rich people in this country, what need taxing?
03:07Whether I support it or not, what I call it, is irrelevant.
03:11But, I mean, if a tax just goes on stuff like milkshakes, I mean, where does it end?