With all the cocaine washing around Parliament, why AREN’T ministers subject to random drug tests?
The Palace of Westminster, home to both Houses of Parliament. Who knows how many drugs are holding up the elected and unelected representatives inside? Well… we won’t, because Downing Street is refusing to allow random testing.
This is almost poetic, although there’s no justice involved.
Iain Duncan Smith tweeted a link to a Sun story claiming that drug tests should be carried out randomly at people’s places of work, to catch users.
This Writer only discovered he had done so because a twitter friend then added her own spin to the story, thus:
Particularly in the House of Commons :-) for anyone falling down drunk or drugged up to the eyes on coke. https://t.co/pOXedi5A36
— ♿️🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🕸️⚫️MaiaB (@MaiaBug2010) August 24, 2020
It’s a good point. This Site has covered the prevalence of cocaine washing around Parliamentary… washrooms in the past.
The situation had become so bad that even the Daily Mail had dubbed the Palace of Westminster “corridors of powder”.
And yet what should be the next item to catch my eye on Twitter?
'No plans' for random drug tests of cabinet ministers, Downing Street says https://t.co/5cPEh4jn2J
— The Independent (@Independent) August 24, 2020
The Independent had picked up on the original story – Tory London Mayoral candidate (and himself a disgrace to politics) Shaun Bailey saying he’d demand random drug tests on all firms with more than 250 employees if elected mayor – and asked the same question as MaiaB, above.
The response from a Downing Street spokesperson does no credit to the Conservative government at all and can only boost fears that they not only consider themselves to be, but have actually put themselves, above the law:
“We expect the highest levels of professionalism from everybody in government. That remains the case, but there are no plans for that.”
What a crock!
If the last six months of Covid-19 cock-ups have demonstrated anything, it’s that there isn’t an ounce of professionalism in Boris Johnson’s rabble. It is, quite simply, the worst excuse for a government the United Kingdom has ever had to suffer. And that’s amid stiff competition!
The latest evasion shows that the Tories can’t even be trusted not to be dosing themselves full of recreational substances when they’re supposed to be – and bear these words in mind – serving the nation.
Because if they weren’t, they’d have no objection to the tests, would they?
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