Reply #27: The thing is, this isn't sleaze

[muriel_volestrangler]

but the Tory opponents of Cameron are trying to paint it like that. This is either smoking dope while a student (quite likely, but also quite typical), or an accusation in the News of the World by someone paid for their story. Outside that, it's having friends or family who have had strong drug problems. And has Cameron actually been a "all drugs are evil" guy? If not, then there's not really much hypocrisy involved either.

As NSS said, I can feel a little sympathy for Cameron and Osborne on this; and I know feel Blunkett is being hounded - who cares what he's doing with an estate agent? When it was the (married) publisher of The Spectator, that was of some interest (sleeping with the enemy?), and the questions over visas and expenses of some public import (though not exactly the worst thing done by government ministers from either party); but I don't give a toss what a divorced man does with a single woman.