Naughty, Naughty, Very Naughty!

Econ 101, opium, Taliban. (Few mtngs I ever had in No10 were more Brass Eye than listening to Home Office plans for 'crackdowns' and 'marketing campaigns' + BJ's desire to embarrass his Cabinet over their own drug use) https://t.co/eNUm3EwS4t

— Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) September 1, 2021

 

Prime Minister Gove Addresses The Nation in 2020

"I am sorry that I initially lied about taking drugs.

That was wrong of me.

I am sorry that my education department, in 2014, passed a code of conduct that disqualified teachers convicted of possessing class A drugs.

That was wrong and hypocritical.

I am sorry that as an MP and minister I stood behind a law that criminalised drugs and those (who are not MPs, journalists or celebrities) from using them.

That was clearly wrong and hypocritical.

I am sorry that MPs, journalists and celebrities are allowed to get away with behaviour that the rest of you aren't.

That is wrong!

As such my government will be ending the hypocrisy and waste of resources wrt our hypocritical drugs laws, and passing legalisation that will:

- decriminalise drug use,

- promote better education of the consequences,

- enable those with drug problems to seek help without being stigmatised

- and end the "magic money tree" of supplying illegal drugs that feeds/enables the criminal underclass and destroys the lives of so many. 

We will legalise drugs."

That speech will never happen:

1 Gove will never have the guts to make it,

2 Gove will most likely pull his leadership bid today.

Wise Words

Peter Lilley speaking about cannabis use by his colleagues in the House of Commons:

"Many of my friends, colleagues in this place, did – and don’t seem to have recovered..."

Drugs and Political Hypocrisy

I have written many times on my Nanny Knows Best site about the absurdity of the drugs laws that we currently have in place in the UK, and the hypocrisy of those politicians who legislate against drugs.

I even wrote to Theresa May in May 2010 about the issue, read it here, needless to say I was fobbed off.

It is therefore interesting to read what Guido Fawkes has written today:

"An interesting snippet from Damian Thompson’s new tome on addiction – The Fix: 

'As with heavy drinking, there was an aspirational aspect to it. Dope smoking was associated with public schoolboys and especially Old Etonians. An acquaintance of mine smoked quite a few spliffs with David Cameron, the future Prime Minister. 

Whether Cameron tried anything harder at Oxford isn’t clear, but it’s interesting that, in 2012, neither the Prime Minister nor the Chancellor of the Exchequer had denied snorting cocaine. Neither, come to think of it, had the current President of the United States, nor his predecessor. 

One of these days someone should write a book entitled Tory MPs Who Have Done Drugs. It wouldn’t necessarily be a slim volume. 

One former MP whom I know for a fact has a nose like a vacuum cleaner recently told his local radio station he’d never touched anything stronger than alcohol.” 

Guido reckons he could write a similar ”Politicians I Have Done Drugs With”…"

Politicians, hypocrites?

Surely not!