blowing dope when he was at Eton was against the law(but he never got nicked) would YOU want a bloke who breaks the law of the land as PM ?don't forget dope was classed in a different light in those days and if you got caught you were nicked-not sheltered by your school!
2007-02-11 06:17:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
before you post answer please read properly its the fact he broke the law not what crime he commited(i am a tory by the way)
2007-02-11 06:43:07 · update #1
This is feeble, so feeble that it can hardly manage to stand up by itself.
Shortly, it will be illegal for me to smoke my pipe in a pub. I have smoked my pipe in pubs for 32 years. Does the commission of an offence in advance of the legislation that creates the offence render me unfit for public office?
By the Town Acts, it is illegal to leave a bucket unattended on the pavement between the hours of 16.00 and 08.00. Do we ask our parliamentarians to swear that they have never been negligent when in charge of a bucket?
Did Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill, Edward Heath never scrump an apple. Did Mary Whitehouse grope her boyfriend when she was fourteen? Are we going to charge gay people retrospectively because they had sex before the law was changed to allow gays to have sex legally?
Mr Cameron has had a spliff - so what. If I were to declare everything I did when I was young and daft I could be done for buying alcohol when under-age, smoking cigarettes at fifteen and feeling up a girl when I was ten. (she was eleven, and felt me up as well - is she more culpable because she was older than me - oh, and incidentally, she is now my wife!)
Get a life, old bean.
2007-02-11 08:49:43 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cannabis is a strange drug. It seems that every new report about it's use contradicts the previous report. Attitudes shift all the time. You are right about your inference about different light.
It's about time that politicians got off their high horses and realised that drug use is far more prevalent than all the studies suggest. People want to be able to control the way they feel, and drugs (including alcohol) are the easiest way of doing that. The real target should be to is ensure that people feel so good, they don't need to take the drug. This isn't easy, and there are no magic solutions.
I suppose that Cameron should not be knocked too heavily. The chances are, all the MP's have taken something to make themselves feel good - even if it's a few pints of beer.
2007-02-11 14:31:44 · answer #2 · answered by Rich N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excuse me for answering if you didn't want Americans to respond, but you have a good point. On the other hand, he was young and that was many years ago. I like to know how many people in the UK tried drugs then. Sometimes I think it's more suspicious when a person never tried them. I never trusted President Clinton's "I didn't inhale" answer. I rather hear: "Yes, I tried pot, but I don't smoke it any more." At least Cameron seems to have given the British people an honest answer. How refreshing from a politician!
2007-02-11 14:29:53 · answer #3 · answered by David M 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a UK question but I just wanted to put my 2 cents in. MOST of us have done things in our past that we would be quite thankful not to have held against us in now, myself DEFINITELY included. In the states we have the same type questions about elected officials, o at least on a daily basis UGH. These are human beings with human faults that make the same mistakes as the rest of us humans.
I honestly, do not keep up very much with politics, because most of what keeps being repeated is about a candidates past and what we need to pay attention to is who they ARE not who they WERE.
2007-02-11 14:28:35 · answer #4 · answered by Betsy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even members of the Tory party are apparently human, and humans make mistakes if in your opinion smoking a joint is a mistake. I'm sure this man has made worse mistakes than this after all he allows himself to speak on national television doesn't he!!!!!
2007-02-11 17:21:57 · answer #5 · answered by pagan1973 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It does not matter.All normal teens smoke dope at least once and I want a normal PM for a change.
2007-02-11 15:42:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Find me a person who hasn't tried dope sometime in their lives! He's just a guy, remember that. He still wipes his own @rse and butters his own bread. To be honest I don't really care what he got up to 20 years ago.
2007-02-11 15:05:33 · answer #7 · answered by floppity 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
So everyone in the crap Labour Party is whiter than white ,then ????
2007-02-11 14:25:15 · answer #8 · answered by little weed 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋