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Jesus Fucking Christ.

Once again, our politcal news has been taken over by the school reports of one of the party leaders regarding something that happend 20+ years ago and an age before they were even in the political world.

Why?
Because over the years, instead of politicians telling us what a good job they will do and what lovely new policies and ideas they will implement to aid our ever burdening lives; they have gone the American way and are now more eager to point out flaws in their opposition, often by digging deep into near history in the vain hope of finding something that might be incriminating.
Good job.
Now what are you going to do for me instead?
Does the fact that the current Conservative leader smoked a bit of pot when he was in at Eton (shock horror! drugs in an extortionately expensive boarding school? Never....) have any bearing on whether or not he will be a good leader for the party or even the country? Does that little drug incident that happened 25 years ago in a different instittution mean that his policies and work ethics today are going to be in some way lacking or even erroneous?
Is it perhaps a good sign that the best (or is it worst) that they can come up with is a bit of hash 25 years ago?

What makes it more laughable to me is that it isn't anything more than marijuana (perhaps my response is an indication of the change in times) at the centre of this. Considering that alcohol is arguably the more destructive drug of the two, the only difference is that one had been made illegal and the other is a massive source of tax revenue for the government.