Populus has done some fieldwork asking about Cameron and cannabis in response to him admitting spliffing his way through Eton.
Anthony Wells
reports
81% of people said it didn’t matter that Cameron had taken cannabis at university and there was even higher support for Cameron’s contention that MPs shouldn’t be expected to answer such questions: 85% said that Cameron should not be expected “to answer detailed questions about whether he tried drugs in his youth because all politicians are entitled to have made mistakes when they were growing up”.
With the
Daily Mail and the
Mirror working overtime in the search for
"Cocaine Conservatives" headlines, Guido wonders will it matter? Will anyone be surprised? Speaking as a metrosexual, metropolitan liberal, Guido thinks not. Who exactly would be genuinely outraged or surprised if it was discovered that twenty years ago he was snorting coke off Oxford maiden's thighs?
Mirror headline writers? Paul Dacre? It is not as if the staff of those two publications are complete strangers to a Friday night pick-me-up.
Well, maybe not Melanie Phillips.
Iain Dale manages to report on Boris Johnson's interview in GQ with Piers Morgan without mentioning his claim that when he tried cocaine "it achieved no pharmacological, psychotropic or any other effect on me whatsoever." Hmmm. Cocaine makes you over-confident, prone to babbling nonsense and as randy as hell. Are you sure it had no effect Boris?
