Before I earned the right to moralise about your behaviour and upbraid you for failing to conform to my current high personal standards…I once sinned. Sadly I’m not going to share my teenage history of amphetamine abuse (narcolepsy you understand), but British Labour politicians – like Home Secretary Jacqui Smith – are popping up in public to share their experiences of cannabis.
Why so? Well, it’s worth remembering that Conservative leader David Cameron has kept quiet about his own drug history (paracetamol, aspirin etc.) bar an acknowledgement of a little juvenile experimentation. Could anything be less interesting? Well, yes, but…who has pictures of Cameron sucking on a Camberwell carrot?
Some media outlet, no doubt. Doubtless too, any picture is just of a badly formed roll-up. Expect it to pop up at some difficult moment. Sad really, but by such rubbish does our political life proceed.
My biggest shock of the day was that Ruth Kelly took cannabis. I once went to a party at her house which had all the danger and dissolution you’d associate with a display stand at a quality cleaning products conference. Still, you never really know people do you?
One response to “Going to pot and other comedy headlines…”
Based on your account of Ms. Kelly’s “cleaning products” party, I’d suspect you are about to be a subject of an expose yourself. She might have known you were the type who would leave the party early to be in bed by nine, and when you left, they popped open the bottles of ammonia, ripped open the packages of mothballs, and shut the windows that had been providing ventilation. All the Press will ever say is that you admitted attending her parties, but denied that you inhaled :) (Steve Boriss, The Future of News)