Michael Gove admits to cocaine use

[Wizard.]

He took cocaine twenty years ago. At least it’s not running through fields of wheat.

[Barry.]

Who is Michael Gove? Cba googling.

[Matthew.]

Who is Michael Gove? Cba googling.

Tory Politician

Think he’s running for Prime Minister

[Glenn.]

He took cocaine twenty years ago. At least it’s not running through fields of wheat.

Him trying to appeal to the younger generation?

[Morgan.]

Who is Michael Gove? Cba googling.

Ruined our education system x

[Wizard.]

Him trying to appeal to the younger generation?

I bet he never did it then, just trying to look cool.

[reece(:]

Better or worse than ****ing a pig?

[Beso]

Could his penis get anymore small and shrivelled....if there's ever a man that doesn't need to be taking cocaine, I can only imagine it's him.

[Marsh.]

If he starts taking it in the house of commons, THEN it's news.

[Denver]

I mean we have all done it

[Marsh.]

You haven't lived until you take drugs, have you Adam?

[Vicky.]

Better or worse than ****ing a pig?

Thats unlikely to be topped anytime soon tbh

I think politicians often just say things like this to try and gain popularity with the younger voters. While retaining any support from older voters because it was so long ago so why be concerned now.

The pig thing though..I cannot explain that in the same way :D

[UserSince2005]

He’s the baddest bitch in the house

[Denver]

You haven't lived until you take drugs, have you Adam?

Nope,

[Saph]

wait who ****ed a pig?

[LaLaLand]

And he's STILL extremely unlikable! :joker:

[LaLaLand]

wait who ****ed a pig?

David Cameron at uni, one of those pig's heads that posh people have on the table at dinner parties. :nono:

[Marsh.]

wait who ****ed a pig?

David Cameron.

(And Theresa May's husband).

[Saph]

David Cameron at uni, one of those pig's heads that posh people have on the table at dinner parties. :nono:

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did this actually happen

[Marsh.]

http://media.tumblr.com/808714517f13b623a7d785d5f6cafd77/tumblr_inline_mx0f6wBOP01qfemna.gif

did this actually happen

Where have you been?

[arista]

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[LaLaLand]

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did this actually happen

Yes. He put his thang in it's mouth as a laugh with his mates.

Him and his mates also used to go around pubs/restaurants and cause bother and trash them when they were at uni too I remember reading years ago. As part of some sort of Club. Scum!

EDIT: yeah here, The Bullingdon Club... :skull:

The Bullingdon Club is an exclusive all-male dining club for Oxford University undergraduates, though it is not officially recognised by that institution. It is noted for its wealthy members, grand banquets, boisterous rituals and destructive behaviour, such as the vandalising ("trashing") of restaurants and students' rooms. Many local outlets refuse to host these events.

The club has attracted controversy, as some members have gone on to become part of Britain's political establishment. These include the former Prime Minister David Cameron, former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, and Nick Hurd, current Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Services.

[Smithy]

I mean we have all done it

This from the same person that pretends not to watch porn fnfnfvcc

[Tom4784]

Meh, it's nothing really.

Doesn't add or take away from the fact that he is an odious bellend.

[Vicky.]

Saph, I think you may be the last person in the country to find out that Cameron publically got a blowjob from a dead pig 'for a laugh'. :p

IIRC it came out round about the same time the right wing papers were scolding and taking the piss out of Milliband for eating a bacon sandwich.

[LaLaLand]

There was a Black Mirror episode or part of it that basically referenced Cameron/Pig wasn't there? IIRC?

EDIT Yeah, "The National Anthem", the very first EVER BM episode:

In the episode, the British prime minister Michael Callow (Rory Kinnear) awakens to be told by the Home Secretary Alex Cairns (Lindsay Duncan) that Princess Susannah (Lydia Wilson), a much-loved member of the Royal Family, has been kidnapped, and will be killed unless the Prime Minister has sexual intercourse with a pig on national television.

The episode received very positive reviews. It was later compared to Piggate, a real-life scandal which occurred in 2015.

[MTVN]

I'm not sure the pig thing was actually true tbf, iirc the claim came from one unnamed person as part of a biography of Cameron that was pretty widely trashed and was never corroborated by anyone else

[bots]

The same applies as I said about Rory. It shows a weakness of character that I don't think is appropriate for someone trying to become the next PM

[MTVN]

Thats unlikely to be topped anytime soon tbh

I think politicians often just say things like this to try and gain popularity with the younger voters. While retaining any support from older voters because it was so long ago so why be concerned now.

The pig thing though..I cannot explain that in the same way :D

I think this too tbh, I see no real reason why he'd bring it up otherwise apart from wanting to appear more 'normal'

[Ammi]

...also the media tend to ‘dig up’ these things...there always seems to be someone willing to give an exclusive of uni days or whatever..:laugh:...so to prevent that by making it known yourself is quite a wise thing to do I feel...

[Ammi]

The same applies as I said about Rory. It shows a weakness of character that I don't think is appropriate for someone trying to become the next PM

...there won’t be one single PM we’ve ever had who doesn’t have weakness because there isn’t one single human who doesn’t have weakness...it’s good to see those weaknesses tbh, is how I think...and to see how someone has moved forward from something.../..the path they have taken from that ‘weakness’ as you call it, bots...

[bots]

I would bet my house that Gove has done plenty shady things in his lifetime.

And replying to Ammi, we all have personal standards. What we deem acceptable from people and what we do not. I don't find it acceptable for a future PM and I won't sacrifice my moral compass for anyone.

[Ammi]

...that’s cool and nor should you compromise your moral compass, bots...our compasses are all different...I'm not a particular fan of Gove but he’s openly admitted to taking something which is very controlling in its substance and addictive ness...?...but his life has not been controlled by it...that to me shows a strength, rather than a weakness...

[joeysteele]

Yes, I'm with Ammi.

The only thing I find odd is him saying he regretted it.
Why?

I never ever touched drugs myself but just about all around me did.
It's not a weakness, it's much like people joining in to get drunk when others do.
Or in the past smoking too.

No need for him to regret it.
Nothing really wrong about it, unless it is pushed onto and forced on others.

Credit to him revealing it.
No need to be sorry, good thing he dabbled in it but not get dependent on it for long periods of his life.

Nothing wrong at all, in fact makes him look more Human

[Alf]

Now we know why he gets up people's noses.

[Ammi]

Yes, I'm with Ammi.

The only thing I find odd is him saying he regretted it.
Why?

I never ever touched drugs myself but just about all around me did.
It's not a weakness, it's much like people joining in to get drunk when others do.
Or in the past smoking too.

No need for him to regret it.
Nothing really wrong about it, unless it is pushed onto and forced on others.

Credit to him revealing it.
No need to be sorry, good thing he dabbled in it but not get dependent on it for long periods of his life.

Nothing wrong at all, in fact makes him look more Human

...and for me Joey, one of your biggest strengths is that you don’t judge others..:love: ...there are moments in time that we can all get lost in but it’s how our paths step from those moments, for me...

...anyways when I logged off earlier this was being discussed on the radio and has been since then...so a good thing for him to have said to be able to raise drug awareness and to discuss etc...something which is widely used atm...well done Mr Gove...

[arista]

Now we know why he gets up people's noses.


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/06/30/18/35D3E27E00000578-0-image-m-3_1467308245077.jpg
BBC journalist in 1993
Snorting Coke normal

[arista]

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Nowdays his Bossy Wife . Sarah Vine works at the D.M.
and his dog (like a new baby)

[Denver]

Andrea Leadsom has said she has smoked weed :skull: they are all coming for the normal people backing

[Twosugars]

Andrea Leadsom has said she has smoked weed :skull: they are all coming for the normal people backing

Yes agree with that. It's all about making themselves more human and interesting

[Beso]

He is ashamed......well at least he is now it's come to light...weasel.

[Greg!]

Not a massive deal really considering it was 20 years ago, but could you IMAGINE the press coverage and outrage if a story like this came out about Diane Abbott, for example

[Twosugars]

Not a massive deal really considering it was 20 years ago, but could you IMAGINE the press coverage and outrage a story like this came out about Diane Abbott, for example

We wouldn't hear the end of it

[armand.kay]

love how white politicians can just admit to taking illegal drugs and Diane abbot is slaughtered for sipping an M&S cocktail on the tube...

[armand.kay]

Not a massive deal really considering it was 20 years ago, but could you IMAGINE the press coverage and outrage if a story like this came out about Diane Abbott, for example

oop!

[Northern Monkey]

I thought most politicians had a cheeky sniff before they go for PMQ’s.
Not even really news to me.
Politicians,lawyers,stock traders... they’re all at it.

[Liam-]

Not a massive deal really considering it was 20 years ago, but could you IMAGINE the press coverage and outrage if a story like this came out about Diane Abbott, for example

The facists had an exotential crisis when she drank a bit of gin on a train, they’d summon a plague of locusts if she admitted to doing drugs, posh white men can do no wrong clearly

[arista]

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[bots]

i can't see him lasting in the contest now

[Cherie]

i can't see him lasting in the contest now

yes it was a smear rather than him trying to be edgy, Boris's revenge I'm guessing

[Cherie]

love how white politicians can just admit to taking illegal drugs and Diane abbot is slaughtered for sipping an M&S cocktail on the tube...

it was years ago when he was a journalist, pretty sure if he was slurping a can of lager on the tube yesterday there would be a similar outcry about it, this is Michael Gove we are talking about, he isn't particularly liked

[bots]

Well, i'm a conservative supporter and I have stated categorically that it's unacceptable to me for someone being the new PM :shrug:

[Cherie]

Well, i'm a conservative supporter and I have stated categorically that it's unacceptable to me for someone being the new PM :shrug:

I do think he has been scuppered :D:

[joeysteele]

Well on a TV programme Boris indicated he likely had too.
Along with Rory's once as a guest at a function, Michael Gove, and now incredibly the awful Leadsom too plus Raab.

I'd not be surprised near all politicians have at some time.
It's ridiculous to hold things like this against anyone.

Shows an unbelievable intolerance, to me anyway, in this day and age.

[smudgie]

All the back stabbing coming out now.
Can’t stand Gove, but the fact he took drugs 20 years ago would make no difference to me.:shrug:

[bots]

it's so obvious the knives are out, it's great :laugh:

Gove surely could not have thought he would not get payback for what he did to Boris at the last leadership election.

As a tory supporter, I don't like a single one of the current candidates, and I didn't like May either, right from the start. I do believe the tory party is a spent force now, they are way passed the point of recovery. It's a sad state of affairs when my thoughts are turning toward the lib dems as the only option i could even consider voting for.

[bots]

Gove was in full bullsheite mode on Marr .... The grovelling was impressive :laugh:

[reece(:]

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[Oliver_W]

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If Dianne Abbott admitted to taking drugs a couple of decades ago, the response would be a resounding "so what?" whereas if Gove was papped drinking on the tube, he'd get torn apart.

[arista]

1137386141005570049


But he was not a MP


He was a BBC Paid Journalist.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/06/30/18/35D3E27E00000578-0-image-m-3_1467308245077.jpg
Way back in 1993

[arista]

He has now been reported to the Police
to be Investigated for a Crime in 1993?

Just on LBC Radio.

[Oliver_W]

He has now been reported to the Police
to be Investigated for a Crime in 1993?

Just on LBC Radio.

Bit pointless; unless he was the kind of scumbag to push drugs on kids, what is there to achieve from investigating some historic casual drug use?

[Withano]

It is odd to see how all those who were outraged at Abbott having a cheeky mojito in public are suddenly fine with Gove’s possession and use of a class A drug.

Like people dont even try to be consistent.

[Tana Mongeau]

I mean, I won't even sit here and pretend I am well versed on British politics, but I don't find this to be that big a deal. Especially because it was 20 years ago. There's a very large amount of people who have tried it or know someone who has. It's just not that important to know in my opinion.

[arista]

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[Wizard.]

Not him being known as a Cocaine Hypocrite :skull:

[Ammi]

...so first the case against Boris ...and now this ‘reveal’...surely it’s all just well timed stuff to be knocked out of the leadership battle and possibly he knew it was going to be made public so decided to say first...

[bots]

...so first the case against Boris ...and now this ‘reveal’...surely it’s all just well timed stuff to be knocked out of the leadership battle and possibly he knew it was going to be made public so decided to say first...

it was going to appear in a book with some newspaper features, so he had no choice :laugh:

I don't like any of the candidates, but each one is better than Corbyn ... just that isn't saying much. At the end of the day democracy elected Trump with all his faults widely known, so I do wonder if things like this are actually a bad thing any more .... they get the publicity which seems more important than anything

[Ammi]

it was going to appear in a book with some newspaper features, so he had no choice :laugh:

I don't like any of the candidates, but each one is better than Corbyn ... just that isn't saying much. At the end of the day democracy elected Trump with all his faults widely known, so I do wonder if things like this are actually a bad thing any more .... they get the publicity which seems more important than anything


...yeah I do agree there are slim pickings in politics atm sadly ...which is leading to he ‘anti establishment’, type vote...?...hence Trump, a significant part seemed to me to be that he wasn’t Hilary Clinton ...hmmmm, it’s an era of politics that worries me because it’s voting against rather than voting for.../..a negative vote and breeding a negative society...?...

[arista]

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Former Junkie
now MP goes live.

[Marsh.]

Well, i'm a conservative supporter and I have stated categorically that it's unacceptable to me for someone being the new PM :shrug:

If you excluded people on the basis that they did something daft when they were younger we wouldn't have anyone left.

[arista]

Govey is Live now



Starting with his adoption.......................
"every Child will get education"
"Our Planet is in peril"

Cut to the Chase will ya.............
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D8tK7CPWsAAf6Qv.jpg

[Tom4784]

I'm so bored of this story. I hate the Tories and I hate that smushy faced **** but this is such a nonstory. There's plenty of ways to nail that rat to the wall that doesn't involve faux offense over him snorting a bit of blow 20 years ago.

[armand.kay]

I'm so bored of this story. I hate the Tories and I hate that smushy faced **** but this is such a nonstory. There's plenty of ways to nail that rat to the wall that doesn't involve faux offense over him snorting a bit of blow 20 years ago.

I really don't care about him doing coke 20 years ago I just find the "get over it" attitude very rich coming from the same people who almost had an aneurysm over a canned gin cocktail.

[arista]

I'm so bored of this story. I hate the Tories and I hate that smushy faced **** but this is such a nonstory. There's plenty of ways to nail that rat to the wall that doesn't involve faux offense over him snorting a bit of blow 20 years ago.


Sure Dezzy
but they are in Power
from his Live feed
he is storming ahead.


First Live Question
Nick Watts NewsnightHD
brings up his Cocaine

[Tom4784]

I really don't care about him doing coke 20 years ago I just find the "get over it" attitude very rich coming from the same people who almost had an aneurysm over a canned gin cocktail.

True.

It's a case of people faking offense in order to drag someone through the mud they don't like. The stuff with Diane was ridiculous and shouldn't have been a story and it's the same case with this.

I haven't really kept up with the replies in the thread but I do hope that people who pretended to be offended in the Diane story aren't telling people to get over this.

[Cherie]

I really don't care about him doing coke 20 years ago I just find the "get over it" attitude very rich coming from the same people who almost had an aneurysm over a canned gin cocktail.

the difference being one is a serving MP and the other was a journalist and not paid by the taxpayer when he partook, not a Gove fan at all but there is no correlation between the two, if he was lining up coke on the arm rests of tube seats last week, there would be but he wasn't an MP when it happened

[Liam-]

I think the controversy is less about the actual Coke taking and more about his historical hypocrisy and privilege, he’s spent his political career purposely putting things in place to ruin people’s lives if they’re ever caught with/or taking drugs like cocaine, he put it into measure that people who have cocaine offences anywhere in their past, can’t ever apply to be teachers, knowing full well he himself spent most of his 20’s sniffing the stuff like a rose bush, it’s also proving that white posh blokes can get away with anything while poc especially women, are held to a ridiculously higher standard.

[bots]

After his launch speech, i think gove is going to win :worry:

[arista]

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[Oliver_W]

Govey is Live now



Starting with his adoption.......................
"every Child will get education"
"Our Planet is in peril"

Cut to the Chase will ya.............

Cut to what chase? Should he have started blubbing and apologising for doing drugs twenty years ago?

[arista]

Cut to what chase? Should he have started blubbing and apologising for doing drugs twenty years ago?

Cut to the chase
Yes The Drug Questions

[Marsh.]

Starting with his adoption.......................
"every Child will get education"
"Our Planet is in peril"

[/IMG]

Is education and the planet not a tad more important than what he was snorting up his nose when he was younger?

[Matthew.]

charlie

[Marsh.]

He was 30 years old , infact

30 is 20 years younger than 51 , infact

[arista]

30 is 20 years younger than 51 , infact



Sure

[armand.kay]

I think the controversy is less about the actual Coke taking and more about his historical hypocrisy and privilege, he’s spent his political career purposely putting things in place to ruin people’s lives if they’re ever caught with/or taking drugs like cocaine, he put it into measure that people who have cocaine offences anywhere in their past, can’t ever apply to be teachers, knowing full well he himself spent most of his 20’s sniffing the stuff like a rose bush, it’s also proving that white posh blokes can get away with anything while poc especially women, are held to a ridiculously higher standard.

this also.

[Matthew.]

I think the controversy is less about the actual Coke taking and more about his historical hypocrisy and privilege, he’s spent his political career purposely putting things in place to ruin people’s lives if they’re ever caught with/or taking drugs like cocaine, he put it into measure that people who have cocaine offences anywhere in their past, can’t ever apply to be teachers, knowing full well he himself spent most of his 20’s sniffing the stuff like a rose bush, it’s also proving that white posh blokes can get away with anything while poc especially women, are held to a ridiculously higher standard.

This, nobody’s bothered that he took drugs, it’s just that it highlights his hypocrisy. Also he’s a massive wanker so there’s that

[Dogeatdog]

Michael Gove twenty years ago...

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[Crimson Dynamo]

Disgusting drug abuse.

More reason to vote for Boris

[Matthew.]

I’ve just found out I’m from the same place as Michael Gove grew up and I’ve never been more been more horrified in my entire life.

[Shaun]

Always thought it was vodka that goes best with coke, turns out it's tories.

[Marsh.]

Disgusting drug abuse.

More reason to vote for Boris

He's clearly been off his nut for decades.

[joeysteele]

I actually cannot take Michael Gove seriously.

When he gets more animated in his speech making, I just find him funny and cannot stop grinning.

He's kind of like a Ronnie Corbett type character at times.

I think the drug issue is not worth bothering on.
It was said on Politics live today.
Boris had on several occasions, said he had taken drugs then denied he had.

At least Gove stated clearly he had and I still see no reason why he felt a need to say sorry.
As Cherie stated, he wasn't an MP at the time.

I'd be more concerned at someone like Boris, who treats drugs as a joke to play a has he or hasn't he game about.

I know which of the 2 has the better integrity and it isn't Boris.

[Oliver_W]

He's kind of like a Ronnie Corbett type character at times.

Was he one of the Kray Twins?