Charles Kennedy?

[Dorisdaisy]

Do they really think he has/was the the only alcoholic member of parliment ?

LOL

It was the "level of alcoholism" bit that got me...I mean - can you be a little bit alcoholic?

i feel very sad for him and his family and wonder if he'll make it back onto the front bench or whether, even, he would want to? i hope he beats the drink whichever.

Or even that alcoholism is the worst "condition" that some of them boast??

I do feel sorry for him that this is all be played out in front of a critical public. I hope he and his family can deal with this and move on.

Yep, feel very sorry for him and his family too. Must be really tough on his wife.

Iklboo, Alcoholics Anonymous have a series of descriptions of different types of alcoholic, one of which they call the 'regular but restrained' alcoholic - someone who drinks far more than is good for them but manages to keep it under some kind of control at a level that they have deemed appropriate. Eg. they may get drunk every night but always manage to get to work the next day.
Maybe CK was thought to be like that but it turned out he was actually not doing his job and the others in his party were covering up for him?

he probably would have done a better job drunk than Tone has done sober .......

How do you know that Tone is sober......?

yeah! there is that ......
some of his decisions would lead me to believe he's been on the loopy juice!

Too much communion wine in his case.

Interesting! I wonder how many alcoholic mps have there been and how many there are now? It seems the media would have us believe that only recent one is CK himself? I would not advocate alcoholism but working alonside some of his 'so called colleges' must have 'drove him to drink' The way it was played into the public domain was appalling (imo)

Thats it joolstoo! tone and bush drinking mates loopy juice ....it explains it all

don't they say they're never 'cured'
one day at a time?

i saw a programme about mps and their drinking. it was very interesting and some of them were sad that they couldn't drink and discuss politics in the commons anymore. bunch of lushes