And then we'll all pay for her accommodation

Moira Ryan is a 69 year old woman who by her own admission is obese. On the other hand she has worked and paid the taxes that fund the National Health Service. That latter fact gives her the right to be an unhealthy weight and have the the hip replacement required by her paid for by everyone. Her local heath trust wouldn't take forward her case and operate until she'd lost a little of that unhealthy excess weight.

Did she diet and thereby save a few bob against a holiday she'd be better able to enjoy when lighter on her feet and with her hip duly replaced. No. She put her house at risk to pay to go to Malta to have the operation NOW! so she has a new hip that's better able to bear all that fat.

She's now pursuing the health service through the courts to recover the eight grand she forked out for her trip to the Med. and I rather hope she is successful as this on balance will be the lesser of two evils - the other being this fat woman next throwing herself on the mercy of the state for funded accommodation, her house having been repossessed.