Personally, I’m not into drugs - never even tried them. But I also subscribe to the view which seems to sustain London as one of the most diverse and tolerant cities in the world: everyone can do what they like, as long as their actions don’t impact undesirably on others - that sort of thing.

So personally, I don’t really care that Boris has snorted coke and smoked dope, but if you know of anyone thinking of voting for him who might care, perhaps you’d like to mention it to them!

That said, it seems pretty pathetic for him to try to cast today’s young people as somehow more depraved than he ever was by suggesting that they are all using much stronger variants of the same drugs he once enjoyed himself.

Either say: “I did drugs, I shouldn’t have done, I’m sorry, and I therefore think we should stamp down on their use”, or say: “I did drugs, I don’t regret that youthful experimentation, and I therefore think we should go a bit easier on others doing similar experimenting.” Don’t try to have your coke and snort it (to coin a phrase) by suggesting things were different in the good old days.

If anything, the only significant difference was that in his day - if we believe the type of headlines he’s usually happy to use to propagate fear of crime - there was far less drug use than there is now, making his experimentation all the more delinquent than that of today’s young people, surely?

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