The new vendetta.

It seems the ban-it-all brigade have finished with smokers for the time being.

Now it's time to turn their attention to the overweight.

The British Fertility Society (BFS) have decided that fat girls can't have fertility treatments.

If you're overweight, and need medical help to have a child, then the answer is no.

However, if you're a single woman, or in a same-sex relationship, even if you have children from a previous relationship, you can still get fertility treatment--as long as you're thin. Before anyone shouts 'Chauvinist!' let me state that I have no grounds to disagree with that part of this article. As a single man, who harbours a healthy distaste for the small, irritating little creatures, I have no reason to call for anyone to be refused the opportunity to inflict children upon themselves. They won't be inflicting them on me.

I merely point out that both statements are from the same organisation, the BFS, and attempt to reconcile them with the following quote, from the same organisation, in the same article:

"Continued inequality of access to treatment is unacceptable in a state-funded health service and the source of considerable distress to a great number of people with fertility problems," Dr Mark Hamilton, chairman of the BFS, said in a statement

Inequality of treatment is unacceptable? Unless you're overweight, in which case they can tell you to clear off. Discrimination on the grounds of weight is perfectly acceptable, it seems. Do the BFS believe that fat people are incapable of feeling distress over a fertility problem?

Smokers can breathe a sigh of relief (or a hacking cough of relief if you prefer). We're going to be left alone now, probably for some time. This, based on previous moves by the Enjoyment Police, is only the beginning. The vendetta against the overweight has begun.

So enjoy your tobacco, at least for the moment. They'll get back to smokers. They always do.

In the meantime, try not to put on any weight.