Tuesday, July 10, 2012 -

    An Open Letter To Louise Mensch About Last Week’s Question Time.

     

    Louise Mensch MP

    Dear Ms Mensch,

    Millions of British people will have felt totally let down by your display of hypocrisy and blind party allegiance about the drugs issue on Question Time last week.

    You had a great deal of “street cred”. I think you were admired and respected for an independent mind, a strong and successful individual, a role model for British women. You have damaged that immensely by what was a transparently dishonest and misleading performance.

    Louise, we all know that Cameron, Osborne and the uber rich posh boys are as out of touch just as much as they have been smashed, stoned and higher than kites. The Bullingdon Club’s penchant for drug fuelled excitement is no secret and if it ever got embarrassing then that was easily solved by peeling a few fifties off one’s wad.

    We thought that people like you might be a bit more connected with the rest of us but it’s quite clear that you’ve sold out your integrity in the interests of toeing the party line. The thing is it just makes you, and the Tory party more than ever, look silly, dishonest and that phrase that just won’t go away – you are so completely, absolutely, utterly and disgracefully out of touch!

    Don’t do as I do, says Louise, do as I say!

    That hundreds of thousands of your fellow countrymen who have done the same thing as you have had their lives ruined by the great, immoral evil of prohibition is of no concern to you?

    You got away with it so it’s just tough on those who didn’t?

    You’re allowed a past but hundreds of thousands of others aren’t?

    You are irrepairably damaged by your mistake. Never again will you command the respect you did. You’re just another scheming politician who made a bad misjudgement in the hope of gaining some undeserved credit.

    Did you see The Sun YouGov poll?

    Do you realise what a bad error of judgement you’ve made?

    Grow a pair Louise and tell the truth. Stand up for what the evidence conculsively proves – drug use is part of life, alcohol is the drug that causes vastly more harm than any other, what we need is a rational, evidence-based system of regulation and control for all drugs. We need to recognise that nearly all use of cannabis is non-problematic and so is most use of ecstasy, cocaine and psychedelics.

    Break the mould. Be an honest politician! Take some responsibility for the drugs issue instead of the terrible abdication of your duty that is prohibition.

    Kind regards,

    Peter Reynolds

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    • Focusonpeace

      Hope she reads it! Even though she refuses to let us know what class A drugs she took, I have a feeling cocaine played a huge part.

    • http://www.facebook.com/sachasea Sasha Dowding

      Perhaps email it to her as well?

    • dragon83uk

      Just out of interest, why hasn’t she been arrested after admitting this? She has essentially admitted to breaking a law which should entitle her to 7 years in the clink. Or are we to assume that a politicians word can’t be accepted as evidence? 

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/A-Quiet-Man/100003657259148 A Quiet Man

      peter she will wear this letter as a medal that woman only wants to impress a very small  number of people and sadly  we are not those people. those people are the scum who profit from prohibition in all its forms on both sides of the law she wants to show those paymasters that she is a good dog and will be happy to support and protect their profits. and sure she can always blame the brain damage from the street drugs for her stupid remarks on question time 

    • http://twitter.com/Real_JoeCollins Joe

      it’s not illegal to have taken any drug, it’s only illegal to be caught in the act of taking them because they are in your possession. you can walk up to a policeman high as a kite and tell him and he can’t do anything. he’ll probably want to search you for more though…

      it’s like this so that people who are in trouble on drugs can still approach a policeman, like if they are overdosing or whathaveyou they can still ask a cop for help without worrying about the law. not many people know that though…thing is they’ll often have more on them.
      and you can’t overdose with weed.

    • http://twitter.com/Real_JoeCollins Joe

      and i do like your point about politicians’ word not being good enough for evidence!

    • dragon83uk

      Ah nuts. The idea of a proho suffering at the hands of her own bigoted hypocritical opinion seemed too good to be true!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Simon-Pritchard/1636074562 Simon Pritchard

      I don’t think you can be arrested for doing drugs in the past. I can go up to a policeman and say how much I enjoyed that line of cocaine I had last week and theres little they can do about it.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Simon-Pritchard/1636074562 Simon Pritchard

      She said she used class A drugs? But I mean… What does that mean, Class A drugs are all sorts of things and she wasn’t very specific about how much or over what period. Like did she use to be a heroin addict or did she just pop LSD or an E like one time. I think that makes a difference, one way or another. Besides its up to people to make their own minds, not for her to think she knows best.

    • sykesbenson

      I bet She was a right ol’ “Charlie Brass” back in the day the two faced slag!;-/

    • nooneatallhere

    • EddiEMKhaos

      Can’t people have a god damn mind of their own these days!? 
      I’m sick of these people telling us what we should and shouldn’t do, weed is a plant, get over it! 3/4′s of the people I hang around with smoke it on a daily basis, they’re fine… I’m fine, I smoke it as much as them, and about her taking the class A’s, well that’s your stupid mistake then isn’t it, stop using your own experience as a way of fighting us.
      One way or another, we are going to get what we want, soon comes the day that science will just prove too much about the benefits of weed, just wish there was some way we could all ram it into their stupid heads more!!
      Just thought i’d share that :)

    • ChristopherSawtell

      Louise Mensch – She’s gone.  Bye-election coming up. CLEAR putting up a candidate?

    • steve a

      Should Clear put up a candidate?  It may not be necessary.

      There is already a big call from UKIP supporters for Nigel Farage to stand and, while not an out and out anti prohibitionist, he is sympathetic to our cause.  Which makes him exactly the kind of person we do not want to be standing against.

      It may be that offers of support from us (particularly those disaffected Tories who broadly support UKIP policies) in exchange for UKIP raising the profile of the anti prohibitionist lobby would, in this particular instance, be a better strategy.

      However, if he does not stand it becomes a wholly different ball game.

    • http://www.peter-reynolds.co.uk Peter Reynolds

      This is the first by-election since CLEAR registered as a political party which may be worth standing in.  Although it has been announced as taking place in November, in fact it cannot be confirmed until parliament returns in September.

      Steve makes some good points and we are considering all these.  If we do decide to stand it will mean a fundraising drive.