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Who is going to win the 2018/2019 Tory Leadership election?

Who is going to win the 2018/2019 Tory Leadership election?


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All this Tory drug stuff has got me wondering about the class of drugs (as in social not criminal) - it's all quite middle class, coke (not exclusively obviously but accepted amongst the chattering types), weed at uni, smoking opium on foreign travels, a fucking cannabis lassi (!?) while being a backpacking cunt. Probably no real impact on any of their political careers (maybe Gove but only because he looks sneaky).

Wonder what it would have been if one of them admitted to years of crack? Mind you even that has been gentrified hasn't it, nothing is sacred
 
All this 'I deeply regret what happened' pontificating unsettles me. I tend to assume politicians who've admitted to taking drugs in their past then want to go the extra mile when leader to ensure the archaic drug laws aren't softened at all.
 
ah - ok. didn't realise he didnt even have the nominations yet. Johnson vs Hunt then.

Apparently he does have the 8 nominations needed to enter, and is just a few short of the 17 required to get through the first round. (Source: Independent).

Probably too long a shot, but might be a bit of a grower.
 
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Johnson planning to piss away 9.6 billion on raising the higher tax threshold from 50k to 80k if he gets the job. Handy for example if you were someone earning say £79,468 per year working as an MP. Definitely not bribery.
 
Here is who did what, from the Guardian:

Boris Johnson
Appearing on Have I Got News For You in 2005, Johnson said: “I think I was once given cocaine, but I sneezed and so it did not go up my nose. In fact, I may have been doing icing sugar.”
However, in a GQ interview in 2007, the Tory leadership frontrunner admitted to trying cocaine and cannabis at university, saying it “achieved no pharmacological, psychotropic or any other effect on me whatsoever”.

Jeremy Hunt
The foreign secretary told the Times: “I think I had a cannabis lassi when I went backpacking through India”. He added: “That is almost as naughty as wheat fields,” referring to Theresa May’s widely ridiculed answer when she was asked about the naughtiest thing she’s ever done.

Andrea Leadsom
Responding to the revelations of Gove’s drug-taking, Leadsom said she had smoked cannabis at university, but had never done it since. “I have never taken cocaine or class A drugs,” she said, adding: “Everyone is entitled to a private life before becoming an MP.”

Dominic Raab
Raab, who had already admitted taking cannabis as a student, said: “At university, I tried cannabis, not very often as I was into sport. It was a mistake, particularly the more I know now about the link between it and mental health issues.
“But it was a long time ago and was particularly few and far between and I have never taken cocaine or any class A drugs.”

Sajid Javid
Javid said he had never taken “any soft or hard drugs”. He told Sky: “Anyone that takes class A drugs needs to think about that supply chain that comes, let’s say, from Colombia to Chelsea, and the number of lives that are destroyed along the way.”

Rory Stewart
Stewart told the Telegraph last week he had smoked opium in Afghanistan at a wedding. “I was invited into the house, the opium pipe was passed around at a wedding,” he said, adding that the family may have been so poor that they put very little opium into the pipe.

Matt Hancock
A source close to Hancock told the Telegraph he had “tried cannabis a few times as a student but has not taken any illicit drugs since”.

Esther McVey
McVey told ITV she had never taken any class A drugs. “I have never taken any class A drugs, but have I tried some pot? Yes I have. When I was much younger.”

Mark Harper
The former chief whip said had not taken “drugs or any illegal substances”, but added he did think it was fair for candidates to be the next prime minister to answer questions about any past illegal activity.

Sam Gyimah
The former universities minister has denied taking any drugs. “Lots of calls from journos today on personal drug use,” he tweeted. “Not my vice, never has been.”


All this 'I dabbled, I tried it once, it had no effect and so on' doesn't tally with my experience. Either people did smoke dope, quite a lot, or they didn't, at all. Andrea Leadsom studied Political Science at Warwick in the early 80s. I should think dope was not unusual. At least she had the sense to say that she smoked cannabis at university and none of the hedging about not inhaling or any such bollocks.
 
Hmmm, maybe I would have thought there are enough Conservative party members that realise that however much they may be in favour of it personally this is a pretty stupid line to take electorally. Gove's idea to reform VAT would give similar benefits while having better political PR.

Considering that speaks first thinks later is viewed as one of Johnson's failings not sure how this counteracts that. He'd have done better just to keep to his tactic of saying FA.
 
Johnson planning to piss away 9.6 billion on raising the higher tax threshold from 50k to 80k if he gets the job. Handy for example if you were someone earning say £79,468 per year working as an MP. Definitely not bribery.
And he will be using the money set aside to pay for a No Deal Brexit apparently, while simultaneously bragging about how he would be happy to leave with No Deal.

I'd like to see that on the side of a bus.
 
Here is who did what, from the Guardian:

Boris Johnson
Appearing on Have I Got News For You in 2005, Johnson said: “I think I was once given cocaine, but I sneezed and so it did not go up my nose. In fact, I may have been doing icing sugar.”
However, in a GQ interview in 2007, the Tory leadership frontrunner admitted to trying cocaine and cannabis at university, saying it “achieved no pharmacological, psychotropic or any other effect on me whatsoever”.
in other words he was stung
 
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