Sylvia Kane moments after leaving Downing St and moments before going to McDonalds

An angry mob of big British fatties today waddled their way down to Downing Street to submit a petition demanding that UK obesity be recognised as seperate and unique from the US obesity scale.

The campaign for a fairer UK specific obesity scale comes in light of the dissatisfaction many British chubbers feel at being constantly compared to their much, much larger US counterparts.

Spokesperson for the British, Obese & Proud, (B.O.P) campaign, Sylvia Kane explained the aims and frustrations of her and her big fat friends.

"We are obese people, plain and simple, but because these freakish Americans are so much bigger than us we are constantly being down scaled to 'extremely overweight' or other such poor rankings.

"Some of us have persued our life goal of a morbid obesity classifciation for many years, but we are fighting a losing battle because the US heavyweights wreck our chub scale every time.

The B.O.P campaigners are therefore aiming to establish a purely UK based obesity ranking that will recognise their own achievements without any prejudice from US influence.

Under the new ranking system proposed by B.O.P campaigners, an upper limit of 25 stone (159 kg) would be set for official obesity classification which on the current US based scale is considered 'athletic'.

It is clearly difficult for Brits to achieve similar weights to Americans as the British diet is on average only 56% fat and sugar compared with US diets which is regularly 100% fat and sugar.

Some have suggested that if the British obese community were serious about their goals of becoming truly obese they could quite easily dedicate more of their time to eating American style food, which is widely available throughout the UK.