Tory think tank recommends drug legalisation

[Phanerothyme]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-thinktank-pushes-for-easing-of-cannabis-laws-to-be-cornerstone-of-partys-election-manifesto-9299048.html

 

The provocative plan is contained among a series of policy proposals put forward by the influential Conservative think-tank Bright Blue, a group which is backed by senior ministers including Theresa May, Francis Maude, and the former minister Andrew Mitchell.

 

It suggests that drug reform would appeal to young and ethnic-minority voters, who are crucial to the party’s long-term survival, while saving millions of pounds of public money.

[Mecky]

What a waste of time reading that was

[geared]

Got bored after a couple of paragraphs, bit of a non-story really.

 

Someone somewhere thinks xyz might win a few votes, perhaps, maybe.

[Grandad.Malky]

They have already bought the older voters by freeing up their pension pots , I guess they need a gimmick to buy the younger voters.

[Nagel]

The provocative plan is contained among a series of policy proposals put forward by the influential Conservative think-tank Bright Blue, a group which is backed by senior ministers including Theresa May, Francis Maude, and the former minister Andrew Mitchell.

 

It suggests that drug reform would appeal to young and ethnic-minority voters, who are crucial to the party’s long-term survival, while saving millions of pounds of public money.

 

They are also showing how out of touch they are, assuming that only young and ethnic-minority voters take drugs.

[RonJeremy]

They are also showing how out of touch they are, assuming that only young and ethnic-minority voters take drugs.

 

I don't think they have said that it is ONLY young and EM voters.

 

I think they are correct though - there is very little point in fighting an unwinnable war.

[Mr Clowning]

Another pipe dream promise. Didn't this or the last Government get advise to legalise drugs and then ignore the advise they commissioned ?

 

This is just a distraction to take peoples mind from immigration in hope that the UKIP popularity wanes.

[Phanerothyme]

They are also showing how out of touch they are, assuming that only young and ethnic-minority voters take drugs.

 

I figure they have already calculated that the rich land owning drug users are going to vote Tory anyway.

 

Of course, no-one will vote for them on the manifesto promise of drug legalisation, because that's all it will ever be. The chances of the tories actually a)getting a majority and b)actually legalising drugs are so close to the average IQ of a kipper that it makes no odds.

[El Cid]

Someone somewhere thinks xyz might win a few votes, perhaps, maybe.

 

They have done gay marriage, maybe this is next.

[Cyclone]

Another pipe dream promise. Didn't this or the last Government get advise to legalise drugs and then ignore the advise they commissioned ?

 

This is just a distraction to take peoples mind from immigration in hope that the UKIP popularity wanes.

 

That was the labour government.

 

But yes, governments in general have a habit of ignoring medical/scientific advice and doing whatever they feel like.

 

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Of course, no-one will vote for them on the manifesto promise of drug legalisation, because that's all it will ever be. The chances of the tories actually a)getting a majority and b)actually legalising drugs are so close to the average IQ of a kipper that it makes no odds.

 

It will happen though, there's a gradually growing body of public opinion, supported by evidence, and eventually it will be changed, with whoever does it saying "I don't know why this wasn't done years ago".