Cameron's Drug Allegations

[AB Asks]

English newspapers have been concerned with David Cameron's possible experimentation with weed at university, with some people saying that he is unsuitable to run the country because of it. Is this simply over reaction to what is simply an unimportant blip on his character? Or should we be concerned by him doing it?

[Potatoman]

Not concerned at all - you show me one person who in their entire life has never done something they regretted or shouldnt have.

[Skreecheeboy]

I think they should smoke it in Parliament!

[milkybarkid]

complete overreaction, everyone does it!
how exactly does this affect his competency to run the counrty?

[JjP]

What do you mean by everyone? I am not one of the everyone group in this case :-/

[Marvelman]

What is this country coming to when this rubbish is reported in the press, how can it possibly have anything to do with the way he would run the country if elected, and why is it a blip on his character, our greatest prime minister Winstone Churchill drank whiskey by the gallon and smoked cigars all day, can you imagine what the press of today would make of him now.

[tigerlily11]

I haven't ever done it simply because I don't smoke cos it disagrees with me.
Having said that, most of those in parliment and power have done a whole lot worse than that.
So I think the case for him being PM should hang on how capable he is now and what his party's policies will be and not wether he had a few spliffs at uni.
Tiger

[Thicko2006]

I understood that this was supposed to have happened when he was at Eton, not at university. I think that if you are going to stir up an argument, you should at least get the facts right first.

[ll_billym]

It goes in his favour in my opinion, at least it shows he has done some naughty things like the rest of us.

It also shows that, contrary to some opinion, a couple of tokes on a joint does not mean that you will become a heroin addict.

Well done David, hug a hoodie then score some drugs off him.

[kwicky]

I remember when past prime ministers went to Eton. Their toffee nosed accents, the families in the squires with hundreds of acres, the grouse shooting, the butlers and servants and debutante parties.
David Cameron is doing his level best to escape this sort of image but to my mind has overcooked the goose and looks and behaves as though he is a descendent of Karl Marx. Forget about the weed thingee.

[anotheoldgit]

i think most of you are missing the point.
He comes across as being very shifty over this matter, by not actually admitting the fact, and apologising for his earlier weakness.
He is most likely to be the next Conservative Prime Minister do we want another Blair, that isn't prepared to come clean, even over such a trivial matter as this?

[netibiza]

I think it's fine and it shows that at least he knows what is going on, and he'll understand the pressures - pass the spliff please!

[hubblebubble]

I disagree with the lot of you! Its not the fact that he smoked cannabis that is bad as such. Its the fact that he wasnt honest enough to admit it earlier (after all his time in politics and places of responsibility).

Trust is the issue. Thats why many people are uncertain about him as a leader to believe in and rely on.

[hubblebubble]

I disagree! Its not the fact that he smoked cannabis that is bad as such. Its the fact that he wasnt honest enough to admit it earlier (after all his time in politics and places of responsibility).

Trust is the issue. Thats why many people are uncertain about him as a leader to believe in and rely on.

[Beria]

What about cocaine?

I'm not offering it, what I mean to say is - would this change your attitude to DC?