He told Kuenssberg that politicians who admitted taking drugs and then advocated for incarcerating drug users were taking a “hypocritical approach”, when a “public health approach” was needed to prevent deaths.
Hear hear
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HE SAID THAT POLITICIANS WERE HYPOCRITES AND A PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH SHOULD BE TAKEN TO COMBAT DRUG USE.
HELL YEAH BROTHER, I'M CRANKIN' MY HO- sorry, wrong community.
excellent policy by the green guy
a holistic approach on drugs will change the world
the hypocrisy does not matter
I bet he drinks tea and so is lying about taking drugs (tea has caffeine in it).
He's a Mormon
Like the guy but he leads the Greens FFS lol
Edit: Left the comment first thing and realising now the phrasing is ambiguous. Should have read:
"I like the guy but I'm skeptical he has never tried drugs given that he leads the Greens lol"
If you like him, do you like the policys of the party? If you like both why not vote for them?
I was just implying that people in the Greens have a reputation for being assosicated with cannibis legalisation so I thought the headline was funny.
My personal policies are actually the opposite of what will likely be on the Green manifesto however I like the man as a person, and respect him. To my eye he seems to have the X-factor that the public seem to engage with, backed up by a consistent set of beliefs and a vision.
Depending on how strong his vision is, I might be tempted to vote for him regardless of my personal policy preferences because vision has been missing for a long time in UK politics.
That's right, britain will never have a non whig-tory party in power.
Whoops, wrong century.
That's right britail will never have a non Labour-conservative party in power.
Ignore Reform UK being either opposition or government next elections.
So he was sober when he tried to con people with hypnotic plastic surgery??