"Our NHS is bogged down by excessive bureaucracy and bloated management," said Evans.

Newcastle University UCU branch chair Matt Perry said members "refuse to pay the price for management's unrealistic projections, bloated salaries and mis-spending on buildings".

Ms Perea was 29 when she first visited her GP after feeling constipated and bloated.

In his speech, Farrell also spoke about the three hours it took to be fitted with prosthetics to make him the bloated villain in Penguin.

The commission’s rulings “grant PG&E an enormous Christmas stocking stuffed with ratepayer money for the bloated extension of Diablo Canyon,” said David Weisman, legislative director at the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility.