Which laws can you break and still become PM?

[Workingman]

Quite a few: apparently. Tax evasion, embezzlement, fiddling expenses and taking class A & B drugs all appear to be fine.

"Yes, I snorted cocaine, but I sneezed so it does not count"

If you or I put some of their excuses on our application to be on the supermarket checkout we would be shown the door, but to become PM?

"Come on in, it was ever so long ago, and you were so innocent..."

And politicians wonder why their double standards put them in such low esteem with us normal people. I am all for giving people a second chance, but please, let us apply them across the board or not at all.

Many higher order jobs require a psychological assessment as well as an interview and criminality check. Maybe we should do the same with prospective MPs and PMs, after all they will be making the laws that rule us.

[cromwell]

Many jobs also require tests for the presence of alcohol and drugs in a person. It would be interesting to see the results of these tests if they were used in the House of Commons, the BBC and the rest of the media!

[Kaz]

Wasn't there something a few years back, where they found traces of cocaine in the HoC toilets? More evidence it seems of "One rule for us, another for them....."

[TheOstrich]

As I understand it, the problem with Gove seems to be that he has been outed as a bit of a hypocrite over it, committing the offence but then publicly denouncing drug use ……

Wouldn't be surprised if it eventually turns out there's been a bit of Boris payback in the revelations, following Gove's character assassination of him last time round ….

[cromwell]

The Guido Fawkes website is claiming that Gove brought in laws that meant a teacher could be sacked if convicted of a class A drugs offence, As a class A drugs user himself this is indeed gross hypocrisy.
Couldn't happen to a nicer person imo.

[Suff]

Wasn't there something a few years back, where they found traces of cocaine in the HoC toilets? More evidence it seems of "One rule for us, another for them....."

Certainly the Scottish newspapers checked out the toilets in Holyrood shortly after the Scottish parliament building opened. They found traces of cocaine on every surface...

[cromwell]

Reports tonight of a noisy domestic row at Boris Johnson's house.
I am utterly depressed at the state of British politics. What a shower.
And this goes across every party.

[Kaz]

It is incredibly depressing Crommers.

[Suff]

Reports tonight of a noisy domestic row at Boris Johnson's house.
I am utterly depressed at the state of British politics. What a shower.
And this goes across every party.

And who hasn't had a noisy domestic at some point? Mrs S throws stuff when she is mad and she has a short fuse too.

This might have been a game changer before the MP's chose the two candidates, but now it is down ro 160,000 people who are not in the public eye.

Ask yourselves this. If you heard your neighbours having a bust up, would you record it on a mobile then phone the police?

Then again, if it is a potential PM who you don't like? What better than to go down the pub and say "hey aren't I clever, I just scuppered his chances of becoming PM all on my own."

Disgusted? Yeah, damned right I am.

Mrs S and I have just been through 5 months of hard work, stress and pressure. The first thing that happened, when it was over, is that Mrs S had a total meltdown over tiny little things.

The press can have its snowflake week or two. But when it is all over, I will be voting for one of two people and one of them is a useless dick who wants to continue May's legacy over Brexit.

Ask yourself this. Was anyone arrested? Was anything but inanimate objects damaged? Was anyone warned? Given a caution? Who did all the screaming and banging? Boris?

So why is the press still talking? Right, it sells media and around half of the people don't like Boris.

I get my ballot papers by the 8th. Maybe, by that time, the press will have shut up. I won't hold my breath.

[cromwell]

Oh, doubtless the BBC will be exercising its notoriously selective sense of outrage Suff.