Michael Gove used to ban teachers from their profession for life for drug use. He got caught taking cocaine and a few years later he's getting a peerage? It's as clear as day that drug laws are just there to punish the working class.
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Gove is a slippery slimy toad of a human being. Noted as a backstabbing twat. His involvement in ushering friends through the ViP has as yet not been questioned. Yet he gets a knighthood. Now convince me that the HoL is not a joke. On another point who is Charlotte Owen
Listen to Spectator employee James Delingpole's latest podcast with his dim brother Dick (April 5th). They laugh and giggle like girls about the fate of Anne Frank and suggest the museum in Amsterdam is a fake. These utter c*nts have gone full Jew hater, & Michael Gove's Spectator employ him ? WTF ?
Agreed. How about just stopping slapping peerages on anyone, especially their own favourites?
Could easily be done, when & if necessary, by public vote.
Though 'The Establishment & vested interests' might not like the idea of an elected 2nd chamber...
The British Empire's most successful ever company The East India Company made unimaginable fortunes selling opium. The spoils made from this commerce are still enjoyed by the descendants of EIC owners today. Land, property, shares, UK wide.
They bankrupted China in the process. It's how we got Hong Kong for 99 years. China has a thriving evening and culture before we introduced opium to them. The Japanese were also in on the act.
Teachers are “the working class”, but if you’re saying that there was one rule for the Tories and another for literally everyone else then yes, see Covid scandal and every other corrupt contract from Eton on..
#TwoTierTories
I’m none the wiser, but thanks anyway! I was born working-class and unless I win the lottery I rarely buy a ticket for, I’ll remain a member of the well-educated working-class.
The class structure is the bane of this country cos it makes no sense. The fact is , compared to a labourer on a building site, it’s not the same as working in an office or school where you need GCSEs. Nowt to do with pay .
Here you are doing the ruling classes work for them.
Not picking about who is and who isn't working class allows the rich and powerful to divide us.
Divided we fall!
Focus on what's important.
Legalising drugs would be a Trumpian crash for cartels & other stakeholders. Dark money to politicians ensures they maintain the absurd policy and don’t interrupt the super profits.
The head of the HHS for the entire US used heroin for 14 years and still brags. FELON47 has an entire band of substance abusers he's using. The low morals crew is in charge!
I'd say it's more accurate to say that the laws regarding drug possession & use in the UK are more to punish anyone who is not wealthy and / or part of the "old boys club."
To punish anyone that those with power want to punish. For example: Person A works for a bank in a mid level position...
What tipped me over the line to fully and flatly reject everything from politicians of all hues was the disgusting behaviour during the pandemic and the lack of police action at the time.
Politicians are the enemy of the people of every nation.
There was once an attempt by an MSP to drug test the admin staff at the Scottish Parliament. He was told "okay but we will have to test EVERYONE in the building to make this fair, including politicians". The attempt was rapidly dropped. Would be very fun to see *only* the politicians tested!
In the UK many trades are subject e.g. rail workers, train drivers, the armed forces, professional athletes and sportsmen, transport workers, Police, energy generation, construction. I may have missed a few out but it's more common than you think
Meanwhile everyone in the civil service can be on god knows what and it doesn't matter so long as they're not visibly fucked (and politicians can even do that). I've also worked in the care sector and briefly in a hospital without being tested (and without being fucked up, I should add)
Drug prosecutions and sentences in the UK 🇬🇧 are disproportionately skewed along both class and racial lines. One set of rules for us and none for them.
Don't forget David Cameron (reputedly a cannabis fan); gets a peerage.
Whilst the odd spliff may be wonderful, as with Gove, 'somewhat' inconsistent with their absolutist stance against us 'Plebs' enjoying a quick chuff.
And he has a FT job as the editor of The Spectator. Pop along to the HoL three afternoons a week and there’s an extra £1k+ in his back packet. An easy life. Easy money.
if the drug hypocrisy wasn't bad enough, the HOC is a next of abusers. ~10% of MPs in the previous parliament known to have "issues", and that has to be an undercount. Hardly any different in this parliament, we've had a couple of high-protest arrests for child sex abuse in the last few weeks.
Scum.
The 'privileged' economically wealthy have always had disdain on the economically bereft to the point of gaslighting them to vote against their own interests.
Rishi Sunak is displaying his ,and his parties, contempt for the British people with his gift of a peerage to Gove. This decision is utterly grotesque.
Occurred to me a while back- is there a more successful species than the coca plant? It uses guns to protect itself, it can influence humans with ease and it has created and destroyed governments. It effectively owns an entire subcontinent.
Criminalisation and punishment of personal use only sticks to those of us poor enough to be unable to afford decent legal representation.
Gove is a prime example of privilege.
ALL laws are for the masses. If the privileged are the ones writing the laws why would they think they would apply to them 🤷♂️. It’s also why most laws are about property and who owns it.
Laws don't apply to the monied. The establishment. They're getting away with it for now. Corruption on steroids.
Gove was regularly off his rocker in the Commons then the BBC would have him on as a VIP to tell us 😉
No regulatory quota, & no qualifications needed (other than, in most cases, a long & brown nose). Its just a neverending gravy train for their chums.
The Lords is actually severely overcrowded (>800 Lords), with absolutely no possibility of entertaining 'our Lordships' all in one go (~400 seats).
Drug laws exist to create a criminal market with exorbitant profit margins. We learned that from the Temperance Act. The wealthy are protected by a two tiered justice system. Cocaine in the White House is no big deal.
Minister for levelling up, healthcare and communities! Can anyone name one achievement? Enriching the likes of Mone through blatant corruption doesn’t count
He's also advocated the Nobel Peace Prize for the genocidal thugs of the Israeli miltary, the IDF. I don't think we can blame the drugs for that obscenity; just his total lack of a conscience.
No interest in defending Gove, but I think the ramifications of taking drugs when you're a journalist are different to when you are responsible for kids in school! Also, those that were banned were prosecuted for several offences - one supplied £30,000 worth of coke.
He was the education minister and off his face on coke most of the time. Ask any teacher what they think about the changes he made to education and I don’t think any will say they were good. Also was he not caught up in the PPE VIP lane saga. He definitely should not be given a knighthood.
You have the story wrong. He admitted that he had taken cocaine while he was a journalist. And the rules banning teachers came in during the previous labour government. It is fine that you think he shouldn't get a knighthood - I am against knighthoods generally - but get the story right.
You think he wasn’t taking drugs while he was in government. There is footage of him in the HOC off his head, couldn’t stand up right. Plus footage in a night club in Scotland dancing like a maniac obviously on drugs. I haven’t got it wrong.
I remember in London in the 1980s, with the rise of the trendy left (working-class people with mobile phones, basically), cocaine was their drug of choice as they became the new centrist middle class, did courses in media, and went into advertising.
Who said I’m sticking up for Gove. In my mind given his position, his punishment should have been worse - I’m saying I don’t want school teachers on unprescribed drugs. Do you?
Thanks! Great quote.
I wonder...
Is it really "the duty of the poor to support and sustain the rich in their power and idleness?"
🤔😉
You've inspired me to read more of Anatole France's writings.
That political class including Starmer's guys are controlled by the Oligarchary Mafia. Gove taking drugs and being given a peerage is normal to them. It's like all the gifts the current front bench get by businesses wanting a slice of the UK carve up. Civil Servants are sacked for accepting gifts.
I’ve often wondered what the results would be if the police did a drugs sweep in Canary Wharf as thoroughly as they do in Brixton or Hackney. The fact that I don’t know the answer is more evidence of Jenrick’s “two-tier justice”.
Gary Stevenson (of Gary's Economics, highly recommend), an ex-trader does recount extensive use of cocaine in the financial sector. On top of the obvious champagne etc.
Agreed. Gove is a nasty ( Trump word) manipulative ( too big a word for Trump) small minded man who lied about Brexit - he applied Trumpian mantras like Trump applies those of Goebbels but somehow he is not held to account. Does like experts but promotes himself as one. 💩
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https://evolvepolitics.com/watch-michael-gove-accused-of-being-drunk-or-on-drugs-as-he-sways-and-stumbles-during-crucial-commons-debate/
Rich fcks can literally take Millions and get away with it
Remember he said building new state schools to replace crumbling ones was a waste of money.
Murdochs house elf
Yes, that's as horrendously racist as it sounds.
Nuke submarine sailor — yer they get drug tested
Bank traders who can screw economy— nah no drug testing
MPs with a track record of £100s Billions of drug addled screwups, nah
Why is that
Could easily be done, when & if necessary, by public vote.
Though 'The Establishment & vested interests' might not like the idea of an elected 2nd chamber...
I'm ready to ..... well, I'm ready.
#TwoTierTories
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/23/readers-reply-what-do-the-terms-working-class-and-middle-class-actually-mean
Not picking about who is and who isn't working class allows the rich and powerful to divide us.
Divided we fall!
Focus on what's important.
To punish anyone that those with power want to punish. For example: Person A works for a bank in a mid level position...
Person B works on building sites, out at the weekend, found in possession. Arrested, possibly charged etc.
Both have real world consequences.
Then you have Westminster. The Tories & Labour have repeatedly blocked calls for...
I can think of only 1 reason they keep blocking a policy every company I've ever worked for has in place.
Everyone knows there are MPs using. But they hold the power & in this u equal system we have to put up with it. Until someone changes it.
We see regularly how much the police ignore criminality from the political classes.
We see how few consequences there are, on the rare occasion they are forced to act.
The system is entirely broken and should be rejected completely.
Working classes risk destitution and homelessness for daring to go against what their "betters" have decided applies only to them.
I say fuck the lot of them.
Not a fan of cocaine, people tend to be utter 🔔🔚 when they're on it.
But their body, their life, their choice.
And even nearly a year after he was removed he still has some "right" to give away "honours".
Vermin, the lot of them.
What tipped me over the line to fully and flatly reject everything from politicians of all hues was the disgusting behaviour during the pandemic and the lack of police action at the time.
Politicians are the enemy of the people of every nation.
Can't abide any of them.
"Traces of the class A drug were found in nine toilets throughout the Palace Of Westminster"
Just like elite athletes, there should be regular drug testing for all law makers and aides
#ClownsIdiots
(Asking for a friend.)
Whilst the odd spliff may be wonderful, as with Gove, 'somewhat' inconsistent with their absolutist stance against us 'Plebs' enjoying a quick chuff.
Liabour gave them a pay rise after lying they would close it down.
And After they removed the £300 per year winter fuel for the elderly.
Scum.
I`m Michael Gove,
guy with the shiny nose.
I`m Michael Gove,
everyone knows my nose
cos I`m a ding-dong.
HoL for Gove so Sunak can put 2 fingers up at Johnson again?
And yes, yet another grotesque decision from an (almost) billionaire.
Who would really think that a (nearly) billionaire would really have any regard for us 'common folk'?
I don’t see lettuce doing that.
Allegedly.
Not in the slightest bit "allegedly"
Plus corrupt far right anti Democratic American billionaires of course.
Gove is a prime example of privilege.
Someone took it - possibly by force and retained rights to it.
Nah.
And control, for sure. And yet we have no real say in these laws due to a broken system.
Reject the lot. Always.
Gove was regularly off his rocker in the Commons then the BBC would have him on as a VIP to tell us 😉
The Lords is actually severely overcrowded (>800 Lords), with absolutely no possibility of entertaining 'our Lordships' all in one go (~400 seats).
https://youtu.be/XBQCPZOnxF4?feature=shared
For poor people they are a scourge.
Just like they are!
E. Musk
The Ketamine Kid
https://youtu.be/toYL4jjl4q4?si=LNA25tFWbVh5VNxQ
#LordSnortOfCountyLines
#CocaineGove
I wonder...
Is it really "the duty of the poor to support and sustain the rich in their power and idleness?"
🤔😉
You've inspired me to read more of Anatole France's writings.
That alone deserves a life in prison