The wife & I are currently rewatching The Thick Of It (it's all on iPlayer)
It's tying in brilliantly with the Tory leadership race that is very much like a cross between Thick of it & Brass Eye
I'm waiting for sordid details of Esther McVey's DMT trip.
It looks like Ganja has won the day! Ganjamaan. 😄
Rory seems to be indulging the classical opium ... must be due the far east tour.
I'm sad that none of them have dropped LSD and watched the walls melt, or watched them breathe on shrooms.
What a suprise! they way London was full of coke in the 90s especially in finance then I bet loads of them have done it.
What do you reckon for Corbyn? some nice sensi? I bet he is a mushroom man 🙂
We know Cameron was a cokehead and Osborne off his face in the HOC on god knows what. I cannot find the picture now but he was clearly off his face
what's cake?
Ask Phil Collins 🙂
Cornyn probably smoked banana skins.
Canny even get stoned properly.
Cake is a made up drug.
That is, it's made up.
Of chemicals.
what’s cake?
Its a drug that stimulates the part of the brain called Shatners Bassoon
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Ask Phil Collins
thats noncesense, you're thinking of noel edmunds
anyway the irony is that we all know Gove is a lightweight, 2 lines & hes **** gone, yet these allegations have poisoned the hard right Tory membership against him
meanwwhile Johnson is riding high & you just know that hes tooted more blow than the rest of them combined
Osborne off his face in the HOC on god knows what. I cannot find the picture now but he was clearly off his face
This ?
Hold up, I was told as kid that cannabis was a gateway drug, how did gove skip this and go straight to coke?
Is cocaine just a gateway for posh people to becoming a ****?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/dec/08/houseofcommons.conservatives
"...the 72-year-old MP, the member for Bolsover for more than 35 years, questioned high unemployment under the Tories in the 1980s before suddenly declaring: "The only thing that was growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of the Tories."
Osbourne's pupils are like saucers. That's glorious.
Esther McVey without doubt a straight head and complete buzz kill.
Rory is an Aardman Animations creation and very entertaining when tripping his tits off.
I'm waiting to hear about how Grayling once tried to inject cannabis, but accidentally stuck it into someone else's eye
I'm still waiting for the 'but I didn't inhale' cannabis classic.
Either you're stupid, a liar, or you were going through the motions to fit in with the crowd. Whichever it is, I don't want you running this country.
grayling hasn't taken drugs; he did however give a load of money to his mate who said he could sort some drugs out for them. Only for his mate to have no ****ing idea and completely fail to deliver. He then allowed his mate to keep most of the money anyway.
Wait until one of the candidates has to admit they did good business as a runner for Los Zetas.
Plus vat.
Chris Grayling announced he tried coke, "a little to fizzy to snif". Our reporter discovered that he bought it from a branch of Tesco express as part of a meal deal. Unfortunately due to some mix up with his club card it cost the tax payer £26 million.
'Alcohol is not a drug, it's a drink'. Priceless.
Taken from another source ‘clearly non of them will have taken ectasy as they would have experienced joy, love or compassion’...
Best thread in ages.
Is cocaine just a gateway for posh people to becoming a ****?
It's not called ****er dust for nothing!
I don't actually think it's too much to ask to have never done class A drugs?
That's not life experience, for the rich it's indulgence.
So yeah, strike them off.
****ing Tories telling everyone else how to behave....
I didn't realise Jo Brand had entered the leadership race...
So Gove's planning to scrap Vat.
If we offering him a few more lines what else will he scrap?
Actually Vat can bogg off, its an admin nightmare these days.
Oh god and then their was Diane Abbot completely cracked out her face on that m&s Mojito.
Bet she got most pages.
My loathing for these ****ing hypocrites knows no bounds.
I see Javid has had a pop at middle class cocaine users today. Just so ****ing lazy and tedious.
Guess it was inevitable to end up with a mud slinging contest, although it's a shame the media focus on this rather than the far worse things some of them have done while in office!
As usual very little real debate or talk about real policies, just a personality contest.
Gone are the days when sexual preference was the moral yardstick by which suitability was judged!
Thank God it was cocaine can you imagine Gove gurning away on ecstasy.
It shows how unlikeable and generally rubbery Gove is that not even coke use makes him more likeable or 'relateable'.
Rory Stewart is the outstanding candidate. A genuinely fascinating person who seems willing to put party politics aside in order to tackle things sensibly.
Imagine the unspeakable reality of finding yourself cornered in s kitchen at a party by a coked up Michael Gove? Dear god! Imagine his hideous reactionary wife was with him, gakked up as well?! 😳
A nice song on the subject of nose-candy from the nations premier songwriters. Very true in this case...
What price your bluster
What price your smarm
I’ve seen body parts lying in biology labs
With far more charm
Now if my parents had warned me that habitual drug taking could lead to you joining the Toryy party, how very different life might have been.
order to tackle things sensibly
I think he's back on the opium after that national service idea.
Or it's just he's as full of shit as the rest of them.
I think it's time there was a bit more honesty about drugs. At the moment there's this weird sanctimonious disapproval of them from the government, yet we all know that around forty percent of people under the age of 60 (and by inference, a decent proportion of MPs) have used illegal drugs at some point in their lives.
Personally, I'd be more in favour of a politican who had taken drugs and experienced life than one of the weird teetotal misfit wannabe politicans that the Oxbridge Unions occasionally produce.
Huxley had it right both in Heaven and Hell and Doors of Perception; it's a shame that society can't be more intelligent about this sort of thing.
JP
I'm shocked that it's only 40%
Still, I don't understand why the other 60% are 'weird misfits'.
Edit : Ah, is that 40% who have 'used' illegal drugs as in had a habit/addiction, as opposed to 'tried' drugs?
In which case 40% sounds pretty high!
I’m shocked that it’s only 40%
Still, I don’t understand why the other 60% are ‘weird misfits’.
Did I say that?
JP
That's what it sounded like to me.
I thought you were suggesting that there was a relationship with not taking drugs and being a weird misfit.
This is how I imagine Rory Stewart smoking opium...
I like Rory, **** all the soft class Cs/Bs - goes straight for the 19th century class A's! Rock n roll hahah
What do you reckon for Corbyn? some nice sensi? I bet he is a mushroom man
Pot brownies, made with fair trade organic chocolate and dope that's cost three Mexicans their heads. He seems the sort.
There's a leadership debate on BBC next Tuesday
Bet you a fat bag of weed Johnson won't show, there's no way he wants the conversation going in that direction.
In fact should test a urine sample from each of them just for giggles
Rory Stewart is the outstanding candidate. A genuinely fascinating person who seems willing to put party politics aside in order to tackle things sensibly.
This x1000. He is so fascinating that Brad Pitt is lined up to play him in a film about his life. I have read some of his books and he remarkable. His achievements should embarrass the other candidates. He is eloquent, intelligent, diplomatic, measured, has lived an incredible life and actually listens to people.
If you have not already done so, I urge people to read up a little on what he has done with his life.
This x1000. He is so fascinating that Brad Pitt is lined up to play him in a film about his life. I have read some of his books and he remarkable. His achievements should embarrass the other candidates. He is eloquent, intelligent, diplomatic, measured, has lived and incredible life and actually listens to people.
If you have not already done so, I urge people to read up a little on what he has done with his life
Which means that like Ken Clarke, we will never get him as PM. He's too good for the UK electorate and especially the Tory party. We get the politicians we deserve etc.
there’s no way he wants the conversation going in that direction.
Drugs would be the least part of the problem. He is being kept nicely hidden away from making any gaffes. Wonder who is paying for his rather professional team.
Unsurprisingly so far the people who will do best out of his policies are wealthy pensioners.
He is so fascinating that Brad Pitt is lined up to play him in a film about his life.
Eddie Redmayne surely?
If you have not already done so, I urge people to read up a little on what [Rory Stewart] has done with his life.
You could start with his actual voting record, so you can see if Mr Caring And Sharing is what he claims to be, or just another Nasty Tory.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24964/rory_stewart/penrith_and_the_border/votes
Wonder who is paying for his rather professional team.
hes being so uncharacteristically shy & retiring at the moment that theres definately some outside influence
Goves confession must so he can dish more dirt on Boris Johnston.
You could start with his actual voting record, so you can see if Mr Caring And Sharing is what he claims to be, or just another Nasty Tory.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24964/rory_stewart/penrith_and_the_border/votes/blockquote >
Definitely votes like a Tory...
Stewart is yet another toryboy old Etonian who has had a life of privilege and opportunities handed to him. Bit Common People (Pulp as opposed to the proletariat) for me Don’t really get the stw love in for him, tbh -maybe that’s what they teach you to develop at Eton?
I think we're going for 'least worst' rather than full fanboi. It's not like we're getting any non-Tory alternatives, so expecting anything more than a smattering of conscience and common sense is pushing it.
In a line-up containing McVey, Loathsome, Bojo, Pob and Mad Raab, Stewart is positively stellar.
Not that he has any chance, obviously.
Don’t really get the stw love in for him
He's less awful than the others.
Not full fanboy;
Rory Stewart is the outstanding candidate. A genuinely fascinating person who seems willing to put party politics aside in order to tackle things sensibly.
Similar to the boris is so funny and witty and not a vile, duplicitous individual old guff that helped get us in this situation 😉
I urge people to read up a little on what he has done with his life.
I think there are some who suggest that Rory Stewart has rather over egged the Rory Stewart story, probably more a result of the standard public school belief in one's own abilities and importance more than anything more malicious.
Still, he does seem the best of the bunch.
If you examine rory's voting record it becomes apparent that he is merely another blue blood riddled tory in an ill fitting skin suit, and i say that despite admiring his writing as an author.
Generally voted for reducing <b>housing benefit</b> for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax")
Consistently voted against raising <b>welfare benefits</b> at least in line with prices
Almost always voted against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to <b>illness or disability</b>
Almost always voted for making local councils responsible for helping those in <b>financial need</b>afford their <b>council tax</b> and reducing the amount spent on such support
Almost always voted for a reduction in spending on <b>welfare benefits</b>
Generally voted against spending public money to create <b>guaranteed jobs for young people</b>who have spent a long time unemployed
voting record here , his voting record would suggest the usual tory polices of slash n' burn are at the heart of his beliefs.
On another note, i see Boris Johnson is going after the money vote in his election bid, Boris looks after his core support , ****ing ignorant ****ts the lot of them.
The drugs issue is clearly the thing that the others are going to torpedo boris on - remember the George Osbourne parties ? apparently Boris was there and
his voting record would suggest the usual tory polices of slash n’ burn are at the heart of his beliefs.
Yup. The maybot came out with some good lines (not in the Boris and Gove sense) but needless to say didnt quite live up to those words.
In other news its good to see McVey going for the return power to the UK by saying she wont allow Westminster a chance to vote.
The drugs issue is clearly the thing that the others are going to torpedo boris on
I doubt it will matter.
Boris will just bluster a bit and then it will be ignored. People are often willing to set aside some beliefs if they think another more important belief will be supported. See the Christian fundamentalists support for trump as an example.
Natalie Rowe on twitter
Natalie Rowe has been banging on about Johnson's drug & infidelity habits for a while, and was right about his latest affair and marriage break up b4 it hit the press.
But yeah the party membership dont care , they think he can deliver the one true brexit so will become the next PM even tho his history of incompetence as Mayor & Foreign Sec throw up the same red flags May's time at the Home Office shouldve done.
McVey is particularly scary I cant decide whether shes a full on crackhead or worryingly straight & never touched anything
wonder what Lorraine Kelly thinks?
On another note, i see Boris Johnson is going after the money vote in his election bid, Boris looks after his core support , **** ignorant ****ts the lot of them.
Well, that didn't last long did it. His campaign team have been trying desperately to keep him away from journalists, and the public in general, and it's not difficult to see why. To be honest, I couldn't even see the party membership going for that one.
On the BBC’s Daily Politics the Tory minister Kwasi Kwarteng, who is on the programme as a Boris Johnson supporter, has just offered what might be the first hint of a climbdown by Johnson on tax cuts for the wealthy. Faced with complaints about Johnson’s policy being a handout to the rich, Kwarteng said Johnson’s Telegraph column today (paywall) does not include a commitment to increase the higher rate tax threshold to £80,000. His column just talks about the need to raise thresholds “so that we help the huge numbers that have been captured in the higher rate by fiscal drag”.
Also this
Damn. Imagine if they had had a kid. Hopefully his wife will dump him and he will lose access to all the cash from her family.
In other news the one candidate pushing for a second referendum has dropped out.
Someone I know had an affair with Boris. Never had the nerve to ask her to dish the dirt on him, especially as she's never mentioned it (perhaps for obvious reasons - not sure what possessed her).
JP
Gove has done this to set up Boris.
So, what has BoJo done?
I'm going for lines of coke out of the crack of his unconscious illegal immigrant kid's nanny's ass whilst dressed as a Nazi.
Boris knows that the moneyed pensioners (who have large incomes but don’t pay national insurance) who make up the Tory membership will lap this shit up. That’s why he said it. Nobody ever won the leadership of the Tory party by underestimating the rapacious greed of its membership
At this point, nobody else’s votes matter, so we will all be treated accordingly. He’ll serve their interests to the total exclusion of everyone else. Obviously they’re also hard Brexiteers, as they’re al safely financially insulated from the fallout
As a side-note, hats off to the ever brilliant Marina Hyde in the Guardian for referring to Boris as ‘a fly-tipped sofa’
+ 1 JP
This is an enlightening read on the ‘war’ on drugs and the current legislations. Lots of mitigating factors, notably racism and the big hitting cotton dudes.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22245552-chasing-the-scream
So theyre voting today
If they don't kick out miss verbal incontinents , who's obviously mashed her brain with years of hard drug abuse, then we're all doomed
I hope LyingBloHard gets it.
The vacuum caused by the appointment would be heard from Neptune.
This is an enlightening read on the ‘war’ on drugs and the current legislations. Lots of mitigating factors, notably racism and the big hitting cotton dudes.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22245552-chasing-the-scream/blockquote >
Also worth catching his interview on the Joe Rogan podcast.
WTF has happened in the last week or so?
Last week Boris was the most hated person in the Commons, loved by the Membership, hated by everyone else and his colleagues were ready, willing and able to throw their careers away to stop him getting into the final two.
Now, it's seems increasingly like a forgone conclusion he's going to win.
In other news, My wife, an NHS nurse who'd couldn't say Jeremy Hunt without 'accidentally' getting his surname wrong for years, thinks he's 'least worse' now.
It really is the end of times isn't it ha ha.
Boris was always going to be one of the final two. There would be howls from the membership if not.
There have been plenty of Tory MPs who have said publically that they'll resign from the party if he becomes PM. Does anyone believe for a single second that any of them actually will?
The BBC is reporting that it looks like Rory Stewart is out. No surprises there as he was always far too sane and realistic, and nowhere near Brexity enough. Happily, it looks like Esther McVey and Andrea Leadsom are both out too
Let's face it, there are no good options here. Its all just about degrees of shit. The only thing that may save us from what Boris will want to do when he wins is the fact that he's so legendarily incompetent when it comes to actually getting anything done
Now, it’s seems increasingly like a forgone conclusion he’s going to win.
Its simple enough. The priority order is:
MP own job, the party, the country
Note under the first category you also have future jobs and any favours to those bribing them, sorry, contributing to campaign funds.
So since Boris looks like he is doing well they are all lining up for jobs.
Where did we get to with regards to drugs and other things.
Has anything more come out about Raabs nondisclosure agreement? Especially good since one of his main backers was saying how bad they are.
Does anyone believe for a single second that any of them actually will?
I reckon there is a fairly good chance one or two will walk but not many more. Not enough to really change the results.
