Fat commuters should lose weight if they want more space on the train, an MP has said.
Anne Milton, a former public health minister, tweeted yesterday that a “very large bottomed man” was making her feel “squashed” as he sat next to her on the train to London.
She told the London Evening Standard: “If you are going to sit on one of those seats for three people, you need to take up one third of the seat. If your bottom is bigger than a third then you need to reduce its size.”
The Conservative MP for Guildford tweeted:
Seats free on 7.34 but in the middle seat of 3 – small bottomed man to my left but a very large bottomed man to my right…..
– Anne Milton MP (@AnneMiltonMP) December 4, 2014
….who is asleep with his arms crossed on his ample stomach which makes that squashed feeling seem so much worse somehow.
– Anne Milton MP (@AnneMiltonMP) December 4, 2014
The man, his bottom and stomach have all now woken up and are slowly coming to life – whilst my bottom is now free!
– Anne Milton MP (@AnneMiltonMP) December 4, 2014
Ms Milton, who was public health minister from 2010 to 2012, trained as a trained as a nurse and is married to a doctor.
During her time as a minister, she suggested that doctors should tell people they were fat rather than “obese” in order to spur them into losing weight.
