Yes I know he's not ideal but he can surely he must be able to put together a cabinet better than this lot.
2007-02-11 10:06:32 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
IF Cameron is elected PM thefact he smoked pot as a school child doesn't affect his abilty to be pm, he should just admit it so we can focus on the real issues affecting this country, health, education, crime, terrorism etc...
2007-02-11 10:14:38 · answer #1 · answered by brownsuga 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would be astonished if Gordon Brown ever smoked pot. His father was a Church of Scotland Minister and even at University Brown was involved in university poitics and would have been careful of his reputation.
I suspect you are thinking of Cameron. Smoking cannabis is now so frequent that many politicians have done so in their youth and it is hardly worth bothering about. I would comment that at the time Cameron was at school and university the pot being pedalled was, I gather, not as strong and dangerous as that pedalled today.
I am more bothered that Cameron belonged to a toff's club at Oxford called the Bullingdon Club. This engaged, from the reports I have read, in activities such as trashing students' rooms, i.e. criminal damage, and probably in assaults. If anybody did these things on a council estate they would be regarded as hooligans, and I do not see why it should be different for upper class Oxford Students. The Bullingdon Club, thinly disguised, was described comically in a famous novel by Evelyn Waugh, "Decline and Fall", that public schoolboys will commonly know about. Cameron should have known what he was getting into. It wasn't a one-off like taking a drag after being handed a joint at a party.
We should forgive people's past transgressions, particularly when young, but we do also look at their cvs. for evidence of character. Cameron is naive if he thinks everything he did before he entered politics is irrelevant for electors' judgment of his ministerial potential.
2007-02-15 12:54:03 · answer #2 · answered by Philosophical Fred 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In one respect I don't, because he was young and stupid at the time and has admitted his mistake, but in one respect I do. This is because if everyone takes the attitude that they don't care if he smoked pot, then this attitude transpires to our young people of today. If people don't care that a potential future PM smoked pot, then young people will think that people won't care if they themselves smoke pot. Thus making it acceptable for them to try it.
As I work in mental health, I find it infuriating that so many adults have such a relaxed view on Cannibis. Adolescents presenting with Cannabis-Induced Psychosis is becoming increasingly frequent. Cannabis can also be a trigger for many other mental illnesses if a person is biologically pre-disposed to such an illness, such as depression and schizophrenia.
2007-02-11 18:26:26 · answer #3 · answered by Pickle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Y'know what? I would say no, but weed is a drug that can have a severe impact on your mental health, and not enough people realise this. Go to Hackney where I live an you'll see half the young people wonderin around like f******* zombies, not knowin what the hells going on in the world thinking they are all gangsta rappers coz they smoke it every second of the day. Then again I think we need sum1 who is a little more in touch with the people then riding round on a pushbike pretending to be normal when he has 50 cars behind him carrying his stuff
2007-02-11 18:59:32 · answer #4 · answered by THT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't care if someone smoked pot a long time ago. Sometimes I think these stories are deliberately leaked to give the person street cred, or to distract the public from something else the government are up to.
2007-02-11 18:20:08 · answer #5 · answered by DS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought the conventional wisdom that all pot heads progressed on to harder drugs, mugged old ladies .....
do we include becoming Prime Ministers as well?
The Cabinet is not a screw-up: its stuck together with resin.
2007-02-11 21:39:59 · answer #6 · answered by Perseus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no I don't care what he smoked..
but I don't think anyone at this present time in Westminster can run their own life let alone run the country..
I just don't know what is happening to our Government...
the past year has been a total farce... its like the lunatics are running the asylum...
2007-02-15 17:03:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.. I care! It makes it seem like its OK to take drugs - and its not! I know some people may say this is trivial but I strongly believe its important to practise what you preach especially as the PM is really influential.
2007-02-11 18:43:38 · answer #8 · answered by sunnysunshie 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't trust anyone of his generation who hadn't smoked pot. Boris Johnson for PM!
2007-02-11 18:14:09 · answer #9 · answered by uncle fester 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
can he make me a cabinet here . start off with a flat pack or will it all go to pot, when he tries to read the instruction manual..lol.
2007-02-11 18:20:14 · answer #10 · answered by raybbies 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋