It’s difficult to know whether to laugh or cry at Lansley’s ridiculous proposal to put fast food companies and processed food and drink manufacturers in charge of UK health policy.   It certainly indicates that Cameron’s vision isn’t about Big Society, it’s about Big Business.   There are plenty of images that come to mind: it’s like allowing the tobacco industry to decide smoking policy, or letting the inmates run the asylum, or putting the burglars and muggers in charge of criminal justice.   But Lansley isn’t a fool; he must know this is a daft idea.  No, what this absurdity reveals is that for this Tory Government, as for New Labour before it, the real objective is not the public interest, but rather corporate control. Continue reading →