Fat people, smokers get extra lease of life

Four weeks back, a survey of UK doctors showed that a majority, given a choice, would go private rather than risk spending time in British hospitals riddled with superbugs.

Now, according to super soaraway Sky News, nine "primary care trusts" won't give fat people joint replacements while four will turn down patients for orthopaedic surgery if they're smokers.

The TV station reckons that six million people in the UK will be affected by so-called "lifestyle rationing".

A ban on smokes in public places takes effect in Southern Blighty this 1st of July, but it's still unclear whether MPs will be affected because the Houses of Parliament are not necessarily public places. If you are in a British prison you will still be allowed to smoke after the ban comes into force.

Cars belching out emissions won't be banned come the 1st of July.

Sky's shocking yarn is here. µ