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To wonder why Michael Gove still has a job.

31 replies

Vikingess · 13/05/2022 13:38

Michael Gove appeared on TV this week obviously coked off his head. Why is he still in post?

OP posts:
daimbarsatemydogsbone · 13/05/2022 13:43

Because some Tories prefer a coked up loony to Boris.

PerfectPrepPrincess · 13/05/2022 13:44

Agreed. Our governance is a shambles.

KookaburraSit · 13/05/2022 13:45

Was that the interview where he was putting on weird voices?

Pennox · 13/05/2022 13:46

Incredible isn't it?

I'd have been sacked or put in some sort of special HR measures if I'd behaved like that at work. The Liverpool 'calm down, calm down' would have sealed it and I'd have been done for inappropriate language as well.

And he did it on national TV! The mind boggles.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 13/05/2022 13:48

Maybe he's the one they all buy their coke from?

Canyouengineerfreespeech · 13/05/2022 13:51

Because the Tory talent pool is very small………

BowerOfBramble · 13/05/2022 13:57

I don't know anything about coke - is that what it does to you? How can you tell?

ChrisReasBathEggs · 13/05/2022 14:01

Yes it is shambolic, embarrassing and they are taking the piss. Never seen such appealing leadership I'm my life. It's a free for all and the sort of thing you would see in a very corrupt first world country.

I think the BBC did an article not so long ago and found traces of coke in most of the toilets.

Looks like it has been going on for sometime judging by this clip😂

roarfeckingroarr · 13/05/2022 14:04

That's just unfiltered Gove. If you had worked with him before, you would know.

Pyewhacket · 13/05/2022 14:04

Probably a case of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. But yes, Gove is a dweeb.

ScreamingMeMe · 13/05/2022 14:07

Because loads of them are taking coke? Probably not before a TV interview, though.

Nat6999 · 13/05/2022 14:13

He had definitely had too much Colombian marching powder, maybe he had been snorting the night before & still had enough on the inside of his nose for a hit the morning after.

TooBigForMyBoots · 13/05/2022 14:49

His interview epitomises this Conservative party and the respect it has for the office of government and the electorate.

The UK is fucked.

Thepeopleversuswork · 13/05/2022 14:51

Because the pool of alternatives is so limited. I agree though it was excruciating.

PurpleDaisies · 13/05/2022 14:51

Being competent is no barrier to succeeding in a Tory government.
Priti Patel.
Nadine Dorries.
Dominic Raab.

ChrisReasBathEggs · 13/05/2022 15:01

He's the BBC article about cocaine found in parliament loos:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59539589.amp

sst1234 · 13/05/2022 15:23

Because he knows too much.

AchatAVendre · 13/05/2022 15:30

Very odd creature.

ChristmasFluff · 13/05/2022 15:43

Not being unreasonable, but given who is Prime Minister, it's hardly surprising, is it?
And you were given a bloke who gave a fuck about you, and oooooh, Leftie AntiSemite SlursRUs and you chose unwisely. The country is reaping what it sowed.

eddiemairswife · 13/05/2022 15:49

I'm still puzzling over SIR Gavin Williamson. Can someone explain?

BowerOfBramble · 13/05/2022 16:26

ChristmasFluff · 13/05/2022 15:43

Not being unreasonable, but given who is Prime Minister, it's hardly surprising, is it?
And you were given a bloke who gave a fuck about you, and oooooh, Leftie AntiSemite SlursRUs and you chose unwisely. The country is reaping what it sowed.

Presumably you're part of the country as well, might as well say it's your fault as ours. You've got no idea how anyone here voted.

Fed up with this new MN thing of generalising how everyone's voted and then saying "well you voted Brexit, voted in the Tories" when clearly half the country did not.

Lonelycrab · 13/05/2022 16:36

That's just unfiltered Gove. If you had worked with him before, you would know

Nah I don’t think so. Like many others I’m sure, I’ve had the misfortune to have seen him on tv many many times over the last decade or two, and he doesn’t normally appear all red faced, slightly twitchy and completely full of himself with rubbish, unfunny impersonations.

If you’d ever spent any time with someone who’s coked off their tits, or perhaps even done it yourself, you would know.

ChrisReasBathEggs · 13/05/2022 16:43

I have always said. If you could find some way of killing all the cocaine crops off the world would be a much more of a compassionate place, instead of arrogant people doing the square root of fuck all and thinking that everyone else thinks they are amazing for it. Actually that does remind me of a certain group of people.....

User135644 · 13/05/2022 16:45

Because the English love their Tories so much they'll vote any idiot into ofice.

LakieLady · 13/05/2022 16:46

Lonelycrab · 13/05/2022 16:36

That's just unfiltered Gove. If you had worked with him before, you would know

Nah I don’t think so. Like many others I’m sure, I’ve had the misfortune to have seen him on tv many many times over the last decade or two, and he doesn’t normally appear all red faced, slightly twitchy and completely full of himself with rubbish, unfunny impersonations.

If you’d ever spent any time with someone who’s coked off their tits, or perhaps even done it yourself, you would know.

I was positive he'd got a head full of gak, too. He was raving.

And his attempt at a scouse accent was appalling. Even worse than mine!

I think they should drug test them all on a daily basis, you shouldn't be allowed to run the country when you're in such a state you'd be done for driving a car.

Mind you, they'd have to breathalyse them as well, I bet they make a lot of use of the many bars in there.

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