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Booze and British Politics

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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news- ... -tv8l90sfj

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Respectfully, I will ask that don't break any copyright laws here. It presents a liability to the forum, the publication and those who maintain it.

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i, for my part, enjoy listening to michael jackson
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I aalways vote drunk. iot dosent really neam anything anyweaus. If it fucking made a difference thys would have made it illeaglal years agfo.
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Patchez wrote:I aalways vote drunk. iot dosent really neam anything anyweaus. If it fucking made a difference thys would have made it illeaglal years agfo.
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Just what we need. A superpower to be run by a bunch of them DRYs.

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The Times wrote:Surely a Whitehall of ministerial undrunkenness is a good development? Having been an adviser to the Labour governments of the 1970s and a former Sunday Times economics editor, David Lipsey (now Lord Lipsey), is not so sure: “Drink stopped the manic compulsion to do something every single day. A lot of what goes wrong now is due to ministers being too undrunk and too energetic and thinking up wheezes that they’d forget about if only they had a couple of large drinks.”
My favourite paragraph of the article, and I think a very telling one. The generalized narrative is that the quantity and regularity of drinking in the cabinet is in decline. I have heard that the commons in general has a few rowdy pockets which is reassuring. They do have subsidized bars after all
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