Just a quick note about Boris Johnson. Clearly claiming that coccaine "achieved no pharmacological, psychotropic or any other effect on me whatsoever" is nonsense. However, it is refreshing that Boris Johnson actually admitted to having taking coke (the second time he has done so).
When it comes to narcotics, too many polticians are not honest about the subject. They hide behind lines (if you pardon the pun), such as Cameron has, that their life before politics was private therefore they won't comment. This is led by a belief that the electorate will punish a politician who has taken drugs in the past.
Personally speaking I don't think that is true at all. The vast majority couldn't care less if some 40 year old politician got off his face in his twenties. What matter is what that politician is saying to them at the time at which they may or may not vote for them.
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Totally agree. If they are hypocritical about this issue where do they stop? What will they be like on other issues? This hypocrisy is what is producing grey people in politics. The sooner most of them fess up to whatever they did the better it will be as the tabs won't have the stories to peddle.
In some ways I think people would prefer their representatives to have "lived" before politics. Being squeaky clean does tend to indicate that you have been preparing yourself too long for your "role" in public life.
I would prefer to have people in office who know what the world looks like outside Westminster.
What about shagging? Why can only French politicians do it?
The problem is that while the voting public at large don't care the media does - and they will be the ones who make it more vicious and more unpleasant and dig up Peter Hitchens to say it's a disgrace etc.
But yeah - maybe of all MPs declared their drugs pasts more often the media would have less fun with it. Although they are a decidedly boring bunch. Not sure many of them have ever even seen a bong!
I can actually believe him - smoking dope knocks me sideways, but coke (and I have tried a few times) has bugger all effect on me.
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