Ed Miliband has apparently told a youth television programme on the Internet that, like the huge majority of people in any given age group or from any given background, he has never taken any illegal drug.
No surprise there.
I think that we can safely say the same about Gordon Brown, and fairly safely about Tony Blair. But they are going or gone, anyway.
Whereas David Cameron is on record as regarding illegal drug use as part of "a normal university experience". His economic ideology leaves him powerless to oppose drugs, and he does not.
That is before we begin on George Osborne.
The lines, so to speak, are drawn.
Let battle commence.
And he's got the youth vote sewn up. Sick of being told poshboy cokeheads are normal.
ReplyDeleteThey are not even normal posh boys.
DeleteDrug-takers aren't, and even Conservative voters are no more than 50 per cent of the people now being produced by the commercial schools.
I am planning a post on those institutions as seedbeds of the English Radical tradition.
Ukip is also full of drug legalising libertarian Thatcherites, Farage has expressed that view in the past, even Peter Hitchens makes it an explicit point of disagreement with Ukip.
ReplyDeleteHilary used to say she had never smoked anything "legal or illegal" but her little helper has never said that. Will he say he has never taken any illegal drug? You have repeatedly done so on here.
ReplyDeleteHaving been, in my time, a shopping centre Santa, I object to that use of the venerable term, "little helper".
DeleteI shall have to ask him.
The tweet reads:
Delete"BTL: Like Hilary Armstrong, I have never taken any illegal drug. Can @TheNeilFleming say the same? @LabourNorth"
And a link to this page.
Over to him.