Jamie Oliver’s “Eton Mess” protest noticed a robust turnout on Friday regardless of the celeb chef going through backlash.
Oliver staged the protest to name out the federal government’s U-turn on its anti-obesity technique, which has seen it delay a ban on buy-one-get-one-free offers for unhealthy meals merchandise.
For the protest, Oliver inspired members of the general public to show up at quantity 10 with bowls of the dessert at 12.30pm on Friday 20 Might.
In a video posted to Twitter, a protestor wrote: “POWERFUL turnout with @jamieoliver outdoors 10 Downing Avenue.
“Collectively we’re calling for the Prime Minister to place our kids’s well being above politics.”
However the motion sparked backlash on-line, with social media customers condemning the chef for protesting low-cost meals in the course of the spiralling value of dwelling disaster which has prompted the worst drop in dwelling requirements because the Fifties.
Chef Jamie Oliver takes half within the What An Eton Mess demonstration outdoors Downing Avenue, London
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One Twitter consumer stated: “Jamie Oliver continues to be pushing Boris Johnson to ban 2 for 1 meals offers … throughout a price of dwelling disaster? Due to some imaginary menace they must childhood weight problems ranges? Jamie Oliver is extra frightened of seeing fats youngsters than ravenous youngsters.”
One other Twitter consumer, journalist Paula Akpan, stated: “It’s bizarre as a result of Jamie Oliver was awfully quiet whereas Marcus Rashford & Jack Monroe, amongst many, had been actively taking over baby meals poverty? As an alternative of specializing in his collapsed restaurant chain and his career-long pantomime as a ‘chef’, he’s again in poor individuals’s enterprise.”
Broadcaster, Sophie Corcoran, stated: “Millionaire Jamie Oliver needs to make meals dearer for bizarre individuals battling the price of dwelling but one way or the other thinks he’s the ‘good man’.”
Oliver beforehand stated the Downing Avenue protest would symbolise “the privilege and the mess that’s our British authorities and its lack of ability to do the precise factor”.
“I really want your assist guys you are able to do it in a lunch break, ask your boss, however please be part of me to reassure Boris Johnson and all of his ministers that this baby well being technique isn’t a luxurious, it’s a necessity,” he added.
The Impartial has contacted Oliver’s reps for remark.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
