Gove "ashamed" Of Cocaine Use

[vetuste_ennemi]

Major news topic. Sky's New Preview discussing it now.

I, as a young man, could - under pressure - give you a very long list of juvenile and older misdemeanours. (Most, but not all, would be matters of embarrassment, rather than "shame").

Gove should be repenting, not his occasional cocaine use, bu his moral cowardice in renouncing Brexit.

[nailit]

//Think nailit means benzodiazepines rather have a knee trembler in the backyard//
Yes indeed Jordy.
Ive mixed the two in the past. Didn't turn out to well!

[Peter Pedant]

// [there may be ] a cachet to being seen as being a bit 'edgy'. The Tories are hardly known for that are they? //

I fought an election with a drink-driving conviction and it didnt do me alot of good - ( returned )
including - who wants a drunk on the council ?

my sort of £350 m a week question

[Peter Pedant]

I was gonna say
this thread is not as disgusting as the crack and superglue thread
but see above .....
it is?

what is wrong with ABers this week ?

[naomi24]

As much as I dislike Gove this whole thing is a complete nonsense.

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - // As much as I dislike Gove this whole thing is a complete nonsense. //

What is a complete nonsense?

This debate? Mr Gove's admission? The press attention to it? The wider debate about his suitability?

Perhaps you could elaborate a little on your view?

[spathiphyllum]

Maybe we could all just relax and do a bit of coke together?

[spathiphyllum]

I'm not buying though... I'm not middle class enough to be able to afford the stuff!

[dannyk13]

I think the point is not so much that he took cocaine, but that he took it whilst pontificating against its use.
The Green party MP Caroline Lucas tweeted: “Rank hypocrisy of minister admitting to ‘mistakes’ on drug use while backing policies that perpetuate harm.

[andy-hughes]

danny - // I think the point is not so much that he took cocaine, but that he took it whilst pontificating against its use.
The Green party MP Caroline Lucas tweeted: “Rank hypocrisy of minister admitting to ‘mistakes’ on drug use while backing policies that perpetuate harm. //

I think you are absolutely right.

Mr Gove being hoist by his own petard does not auger well for agreement by the nation with his perception that he is a fit and proper head of government for this country.

[spathiphyllum]

I hate gove shocked he's even still in government. Can't we boot him out for incompetence?

[naomi24]

AH, I’d guess few have done something in their lives that later on, with the benefit of age and experience, they wouldn’t do now. I don’t like Gove one bit but I dislike the holier than thou more.

All together now ……

[vulcan42]

I still maintain that knowingly breaking the law for your own pleasure, whether it was twenty five years ago or yesterday, is not a desirable trait in a potential prime minister.

[ludwig]

// I still maintain that knowingly breaking the law for your own pleasure, whether it was twenty five years ago or yesterday, is not a desirable trait in a potential prime minister. //

Oh dear, that rules out about 90% of the population from consideration.

[naomi24]

Vulcan, young people do stupid things. Hands up all those who drank in pubs - and possibly got drunk - before they were 18.

[weecalf]

Nothing to be ashamed about there Micky but ... what bothers me is how are you gonna tell your grand kids you wanted to leader of the Tory party

[jno]

Gove's drug-taking came in his 30s, not his teens. He was exactly the sort of middle-class, well-off, not a daft kid any more that he was lecturing in the newspapers. He was the one who was holier than thou, and now it's bitten him in the bum.

[ludwig]

What's interesting is that there's hardly any condemnation of this from other MPs. People in glass houses etc etc.

[spathiphyllum]

At least he never put his *** in a dead pigs mouth. Or did he?

[jno]

I imagine when the Palace of Westminster is fully restored it will have a special MPs' Snorting Room.

[vulcan42]

I imagine when the Palace of Westminster is fully restored it will have a special MPs' Snorting Room.

That should cover both of the issues, pigs and drugs.