Monday, February 12, 2007

The weed of crime

Fat Dave has revealed that he’s not just a lover, or a joker, he’s also a midnight toker. Not content with the legitimate fun available at Eton such as buggery, latin and torturing scholarship boys, he’s revealed that he smoked cannabis while at school.

What’s great about it though is apparently it’s okay for him to break the law and still want to become PM because, ‘politicians are entitled to a private past’. Okay, so, it’s fine for a paedophile to have a legitimate expectation of becoming Minister for Children is it?

Everyone is entitled to a private past, but not everyone is an MP. Basically you’re asking people to vote for you, to put their trust in you - and when you reveal that your standards are not the same as theirs, how can you expect them to still support you.

Drug use is a sign of being morally lax, and I should know. But I’m not asking people to vote for me.

What I really liked was that no other MP censured him, even the opposition. Clearly one rule for the self-appointed ruling classes, another for the plebs. The biggest joke was the Home Secretary, John ‘slasher’ Reid, intimating that if we weeded out the users, abusers and boozers from the world of politics, those left would be anaemic. Since when did being a twat high on weed become a pre-requisite of wanting to enter public service. I’m sure there are many people out there who care a lot, do good and are not, and never have been, relentless egomaniacs who think that they should be allowed to indulge their vices without consequence.

What I keep coming back to though is that entitlement of a private past. How far does that extend? Caught wanking in your car? Probably get away with that. Caught wanking in your car with a magazine open to show a picture of a steam train? You’ll probably be okay. Caught wanking in your car with a picture of a traction engine - perfectly normal. Caught wanking in your car using a picture of a diesel loco? You bloody pervert.

Of course, most deviants normally go straight from the al fresco self love to the body in the boot stage but, hey, apparently that’s okay, because we’re all entitled to a private past.

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