Feb 11 2007
Cameron and cannabis
The left are clearly worried by David Cameron. Their attempt to smear him for alleged wrongdoings 25 years ago shows their desperation.
The media who are trying to turn this into an important political issue are showing no balance. I wonder how many Ministers in the present government smoked cannabis when they were young? Why isn’t that an issue? Where are the media sleuths ringing round student friends of the present Cabinet to see what they got up to?
??To try to make it a serious story we are being told we need to know this, as Mr Cameron may be making recommendations on drugs laws as an MP. Yes, of course he might - just as MPs who have been found guilty of speeding vote on road traffic laws, and Councillors who park in the wrong place tell the rest of where we can and can’t leave our vehicles. You cannot have a Parliament of Saints. The electorate decides how much past sinning is acceptable,??if people with criminal records stand for election.
As someone who did not take drugs - I stuck to alcohol at university - I have no worries about these claims and think David Cameron is right neither to??mislead nor to elaborate on what might have happened 25 years ago.
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
And alcohol isn’t a drug?
I don’t care what Cameron has smoked so long he isn’t doing it now.
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Actually this illustrates why the Tories were wrong to choose Cameron. He was a creature of the media, (his sudden rise to prominence from nowhere was entirely a media phenomena.) and now Christmas is over, they are going to leave him down at the pet shelter - If he is lucky.
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Coke snorting media pigs get worked up about someone smoking weed 25 years ago. Forgive me if I don’t get too excited.
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