Sniffer dogs to the House of Parliament?

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Michael Gove, coke. Boris Johnson coke. Rory Stewart opium. Blah, blah, mistake, I was young, its wrong, oh dear. Words fail me. All of them want to be PM! Bloody hell.

Whoops, all of the above is public, published, information, not spurious speculation.

Er, well, I was expecting a bit more outrage, women of mumsnet. Usually a poster only has to say 'my boyfriend smoked a spliff when our child was in the house" to generate a chorus of LTBs. What's going on? Is nobody irritated by the hypocrisy of these law-making and law-breaking hypocrites?

The fact they did drugs in their youth doesn’t bother me.

What does bother me is their opposition to drug decriminalisation.

Irritated but used to it.

Plus, they all support stop and search. So they’re happy for young black men to go to prison for 10 years for something they paid no consequences for.

Meh. If you did a post asking who'd experimented with drugs in their youth most would say yes.
Most might still now.

I wouldn't judge someone on some drug use from 20-30 years ago. And I've never touched a single thing.

Oh, and since your first post, Andrea Leadsom has said she smoked cannabis, so you can add that one on.

I would rather have a government of people who have some idea of real life and some experience rather than a bunch of naive people who have never put a foot wrong and judge everyone else.

Will be trickier to find one of them who hasn't done/tried smoked/sniffed something soonor they'll be trying to outdo each other "I danced with 5 non-vegans whilst wearing real fur & eating white bread" Wonder if it made Gove even more or less alluring

Oh great, its a bandwagon now, there'll be a queue of them confessing by tomorrow morning. I don't care one way or the other about their drug use but the hypocrisy is breathtaking. And unsurprising. Its the injustice that gets to me, council estate resident off to the nick but potential Prime Minister?shrugs all round. I don't suppose anyone will be stopping their cars or raiding their houses any time soon.

Well the difference is very obvious. They never got caught.

Of course we must uphold laws. And if somebody is caught committing a crime then they should absolutely be tried and punished accordingly.

And if only admitted to but not 'caught,', suitable prime minister material?

I couldn’t give a shit what any of them did as students. They do this from time to time, to appeal to ‘the man on the street’.
I’m more concerned by their actions now.
I, Daniel Blake is savagely real. A politician confessing to shoving coke up his nose 20 years ago, to make himself seem real, has little bearing on that.

Well I'd judge their prime minister appeal more on policies and beliefs.

I don't agree with drugs. But an individual using drugs many decades ago wouldn't even flag up to me.

I couldn't care less about what they did years ago, in private.
I care about how they regard the poor, vulnerable and sick. And based on that, I don't want any of the candidates to be the PM. And no, I don't have any better alternative, before anybody asks, and that is depressing as hell.

Amen Hagrid.

I’m not bothered about drug use in their youth, I am curious if they think these confessions make them seem more relatable as a lot of people think they are robot like.

I do think it’s interesting that Diane Abbott got a pasting for drinking a tinny on the tube but there doesn’t seem to be be the sane outrage for these confessions.

If your sniffer dogs could sniff out hypocrisy then you'd need van loads for Parliament.

These "revelations" may be an attempt to make most of the candidates sound less boring !

Rory the Tory has had an interesting life, but the others are the political equivalent of Valium

I would rather have a government of people who have some idea of real life and some experience rather than a bunch of naive people who have never put a foot wrong and judge everyone else

LOL @ thinking snorting a line of coke = super rich upper class toffs having an idea of "real life"

The Sun called it 'The Houses of Charliement' in a headline in 2013. Traces of cocaine were found in toilets, including some used only by MPs.

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Houses of Charliement

What more did you expect of such a bunch of second rate low lifers?

Wasn't Michael Gove well into his 30s when he was sniffing coke (and presumably well aware of the social impact and consequences of the supply chain) so hardly a youthful indiscretion.

I wonder what prompted him to make the shock revelation that posh journalist takes drugs?

Boris Johnson, nothing that low life does surprises me.

I don't believe Gove did cocaine. He's just trying to be 'down with the kids' to get the young vote. However, he was definitely on something when he was Education Secretary and screwed up the National Curriculum. Prick.