Don’t police our treats

MARIE Antoinette said of the peasants during the French Revolution: ‘Let them eat cake.’ If Susan Jebb, head of the Food Standards Agency, had her way, Britons wouldn’t even be allowed that tasty treat.

This pleasure-killing panjandrum claims bringing buns into the workplace is as harmful to colleagues as passive smoking.

Yes, obesity is a concern. But Ms Jebb’s agency exists to ensure food safety, not for finger-wagging nanny-state lectures.

Just because she seems unable to exercise self-control, should others be denied small luxuries? People are sick of elites on huge taxpayer-funded salaries trying to impose cheerless restrictions for our own good.

And why is a Tory government, an advocate of free will, putting dreadful paternalists in charge? These do-gooders want to have – and eat – their metaphorical cake.