Water on the Brain

Having established that it has absolute control over the Outer Party members and proles by making tobacco, fatty foods and God knows what else double-plus ungood, the British government will now extends its dead hand over the counterrevolutionary evil of bottled water-- at least, if the Thoughtpoliceman natural resource commissioner has his way:

We have to make people think that it's unfashionable just as we have with smoking. We need a similar campaign to convince people that this is wrong.

And the environment minister chimes in his support, saying that the bourgeois menace of bottled water:

(B)orders on being morally unacceptable.

Expect to soon see Emmanuel Goldstein holding up a bottle Evian at the Two Minute Hate.