Council bans ice cream vans from outside schools

Earlier this week I was quoted condemning government plans to introduce annual fitness tests for school children. On top of the fact the proposal creates yet more tests and government interference for young students, it also represents the latest in a long line of 'health-fascism' legislation that threatens our traditional way of life.

Today, the Daily Mail is reporting that Hillingdon Council has taken this corrosive trend one step further:

The jingle of the ice cream van tells schoolchildren summer is on the way.

But the traditional treat has been banned by one council, which claims they encourage unhealthy eating.

Bureaucrats at Hillingdon council have declared that vans which park outside schools will be impounded under new rules.

They claim they were forced to act because there is 'a need to encourage healthier eating habits in children'.

Firstly a congratulations to Hillingdon for identifying the raison d'etre of ice cream vans. But minus marks for the sort of boneheaded nanny-statism that is all too common today.

Kids like ice cream and should be allowed to eat it. It's up to parents to encourage them to eat more healthily - not local councils.

Then there's the idea of impounding the vehicles of small business owners for the crime of trying to sell to their target market. 

All in all, this is a complete stinker of a policy. Hillingdon: you are named and shamed.

By Dylan Sharpe

Comments

[Purlieu]

I hope Hillingon schools don't sell chips and burgers .....

[LeChiffre]

Hillingdon, another Tory-controlled council named and shamed on BBW.

[Spooky Bureaucrat]

They're not named though, are they? Yet AGAIN it's anonymous bureaucrats. Rare indeed is it for them to actually be named. It's rare for us to actually find out who first said "It's not good that these vans are outside schools", then who said " We could ban that under rule 947" then who prepared the documents etc. They are the people who inflict this upon us. Hillingdon Council is a collection of people. And most of them causing the trouble will be anonymous, un-named, not-very-ashamed-at-all people.

[LeChiffre]

The councillors are responsible: they have a 'cabinet' style council in Hillingdon. The leader of the council is Councillor Raymond Puddifoot, Conservative, and his email address is

[email protected]

Named and shamed.

[sikiş]

They are the people who inflict this upon us. Hillingdon Council is a collection of people. And most of them causing the trouble will be anonymous, un-named, not-very-ashamed-at-all people.

[sildenafil]

Kids like ice cream and should be allowed to eat it. It's up to parents to encourage them to eat more healthily - not local councils.Then there's the idea of impounding the vehicles of small business owners for the crime of trying to sell to their target market.

[Women Supra Style]

Virtue never grows old.