Belgium's 20-stone minister for public health is accused of being too big to be 'credible'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2791369/20-stone-minister-public-health-accused-big-credible-hits-saying-s-s-inside-counts.html ^

[traumer]

Some politicians come under fire for being corrupt or incompetent, but Belgium's new Minister of Public Health is the first political figure to come under fire for being too fat for the job.

Maggie De Block - who is Belgium's most popular politician and was once tipped as a future premier - surprised many when it was announced she would take up the role of Health Minister in the centre-right coalition which has just taken office.

The 52-year-old, who weighs in at more than 20 stone, was not considered to be exactly setting a good example in a country where obesity is a growing health problem.

[grobdriver]

NO PICTURES!

I'm having lunch.

[Dr. Thorne]

UKIP’s Nigel Farage called Belgium “a non-country”. He was right.

[onedoug]

Gotta be satire.

[reg45]

20 stone is 280 pounds

[FroggyTheGremlim]

at 14 pounds per stone, that comes to 280 pounds.

Pretty hefty for a Prime Minister?

[Charles Henrickson]

Maggie “Around” De Block.

[Bob]

The article states that she was “unmoved by hunger strikes”. I’m thinking that she’d be unmoved by a Cat 5 hurricane.

[traumer]

Nope - it’s real

[Former Proud Canadian]

She is way over 280. She used to be a doctor.

[traumer]

Health Minister !

[dfwgator]

She ain’t exactly pretty, ain’t exactly small.

[Diogenesis]

The picture of this porcine Administrator makes
the First Caboose look sickly thin.

[Boogieman]

Yeah, don’t look. She’s so fat she’s getting that thing where it looks like her cheeks are about to to swallow her face.

[camle]

“she wields her wheelbarrow
through streets that are narrow
her barrow is narrow her hips are too wide
for wherever she wields it
the neighborhood feels it
her girdle keeps scraping the homes on each side...”
-Allan Sherman

[traumer]

what happened to our SG ?

[Yossarian]

Forty-two, thirty-nine, fifty-six
You could say she’s got it all!

[traumer]

setting new EU standards...

[Charles Henrickson]

The article states that she was “unmoved by hunger strikes”. I’m thinking that she’d be unmoved by a Cat 5 hurricane.

LOL!

She is De Block of Granite.

[Michael.SF.]

Belgium's new Minister of Public Health is the first political figure to come under fire for being too fat for the job.

Guess they never heard of Chris Christy.