Jacqui Smith: How To Take Drugs And Get Away With It
SAYS JACQUI Smith, the Home Secretary: “Under my own guidelines, had I been caught in possession over 18 I should have been charged.”
Smith has admitted to having smoked cannabis a “few times”, but assures a caller to the radio show she’s talking on that it was “a lengthy period ago”.
Although what with the schizophrenic properties of weed, she cannot be certain when it was exactly, and neither can she.
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Smith made a note of it somewhere, and passed over the file to a data management company for safe keeping, but they’ve mislaid it and now there is a lack of proof about whatever it was she was saying earlier.
The caller to BBC Radio 5 wants to know if Smith’s arrest would have meant she could have taken the job of Home Secretary?
Says Smith: “Home…? Oh yes. “No, I would not – which is why what I did was wrong.”
It turns out that getting caught is the main, and so long as you don’t get caught taking drugs you can be a fit and proper person for any job, including that of overseeing UK drugs policy and banning people from taking them lest they be driven criminally insane…
May 15th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
so the choices are be driven criminally insane, driven into politics or happily nuts, ok now we know
May 15th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
talking about crimanally insane, theres a bloke in mondays times saying cannabis is so bad he’d rather people were addicted to heroin, as you can
‘come off it without damage’.
if these people are being listened to, it’s not the smokers they should be locking up. it’s the stupid advisors.
hope he remembers what he said if he ever actually meets a smackhead who has no cash and is rattling his bollocks off.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Not as good as when Jack Straw was in charge of Drugs policy after his son was caught with a significant amount of Cannabis. Another friend caught with the same alleged amount got 3 years for a first time offence, rather than a caution, like Jack’s son did. There is also the thing about his brother that the hacks go on about, people on registers (allegedly), and in charge of them too.
Jack always used to pause when he mentioned drugs, it was a great slip as he checked he was getting his words right.
Just like with the Tories, be tough on people that you don’t really have any dealings with, introduce policies that don’t affect you like the ones used on flights for security and etc.
Jaqui, she’s great, she gets all mumsey when explaining the 42 day limit or the “dangers” of super Skunk, when in the early 1980s you could get hold of Temple Ball from Nepal which was easily 5 times as strong.
That’s right, just be all mumsey about it and get it past the credulous public that way, for both Jacks and Harriet it’s worked on Newsnight without a demur.
Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime that don’t involve us or ours. I believe that’s called an Oligarchy, Madam, Ma’m, Mum…