MPs to go clubbing in cocaine inquiry

Eh?

Surely they could just pop next ddoor to the House of Lords?

No Abba

"One Police source apparently told the Telegraph, "I imagine some of these MPs haven't been to a club since the 70s – and it's a long way from the Bee Gees and Abba these days.""

I dunno, never been to Club De Fromage?

Maybe they could try an alternative approach tho. The latest "drugs are bad m'kay?" advert I've seen complains that if you do partake in a bit of the devil's talc, your nose will end up destroyed "because of all the chemicals" - what, you mean the chemicals that get put in it to cut it by dodgy dealers? Because ironically they call them "controlled substances" where there is no control over what gets put in it? Maybe instead of trawling nightclubs they should try listening to their drugs advisers.

Oh God, I've just realised this post is just a "what about taxpayers money!" away from being on the Daily Fail comments board

Any excuse

To get it paid for on expenses.

drugs mkay?

Everyone knows if you take them before you go in that no amount of scanning or patting down, turning out of pockets and searching of bags is going to reveal anything.

Then you just drink and dance til they kick in and four hours later it's time for a kebab and a taxi.

Sorry if that ruins anything for any MPs but it should save the taxpayer some money.

Eh?

"What struck me was that the young people seemed very happy to go through the scanners and that they wanted a night free of the problems you get with drugs"

Or possibly a night free from the problems you get with knives and guns, because unless they've created magic new scanners that pick up on illegal substances I'd bet the kids were more than happy to go through them.

Smiley face, because ACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID!!! (though, thinking about it, more than one of El Reg's icons could be used as a logo for a drug!)

What a great example

Instead of pooling all the great research already done from the police to pedro the dog mule adverts they chose to go themselfs. Whats this telling the public; if you want to know about drugs, ignore all the advice we give you and go try it yourself.

Seriously how can a MP in a nightclub not stand out more than some undercover cop. bit like having a emu at an orgy, nobody is going to get it out on show.

Why dont they just send them the security camera's from the toilets inside a nightclub, oh wait , no they might see drugs in use then.

This is not research its about rubbing your electoral peen and going look peeps I know drugs, Even Neo made an effort with Kung-Foo :).

People take drugs for the same reasons they drink

> "What struck me was that the young people seemed very

> happy to go through the scanners and that they wanted a

> night free of the problems you get with drugs," he told the

> Beeb.

What an idiot!

Most of the problems with drugs are caused by the prohibition of the damn things! It is obvious, but this MP seems to be unable to see it.

Most people, funnily enough, want to avoid problems when going out, but still want to get wrecked at the weekends. That is why they seem to accept intrusion with scanners - it is better than dealers having weapons in clubs (they do mean metal detectors by scanners, right?).

There is demand for drugs, and there always will be: fighting it is futile. When you then ban drugs you spawn an uncontrollable black market, where you get unpredictable products (variable strength and quality), full of people willing to use violence to settle market disputes.

I'm sure the MPs understand why people go out on the weekends and get rat-arsed, so what's there not to understand about going out and getting high? People do it escape the world where we slave for our banking overlords (does not most of what you earn go on rent or a mortgage? And is this not the same for virtually everyone you work with?), it's just drugs offer a subtly different escape than alcohol. I should think that the MPs are treating the drugs as somehow different to alcohol because that is what their rhetoric has spewed for years.... but the differences between alcohol and illegal drugs are rather meaningless in reality - alcohol is just a drug itself. The differences only persist because of the profits to be made through prohibition of some drugs: alcohol has competitors removed, there is a constant supply of users and small time dealers for the police to keep themselves busy with, the legal industry make plenty both prosecuting and defending this steady supply, and the big time organised criminals make huge profits, totally tax free.

Getting rid of prohibition would kill the profits to be made in the black market, making it less attractive for the immensely greedy. It would also mean that quality control can be enforced on drugs, making them safer.

No one in their right mind suggests we prohibit alcohol, so why do people think it would work for drugs? The only people who support prohibition of drugs do not know their history, or have not learnt from it.

boracic?

"If you were boracic, there was always Evostick." I assume you mean brassic?

re: Hey, here's an idea...

No, the NHS is the country's biggest employer - third in the world, after the Chinese army and the Indian railways - though as a proportion of the national population, it is the biggest anywhere (unless the Pope is the only resident of Vatican City, in which case he wins). Also, a lot of NHS staff already have hands-on experience with pharmaceuticals...

I for one welcome our coked up House-of-Overlords

Wipes out brain cells...

Aye glue were very cheap but I was told that it wiped out brain cells...

Anyhow, I can tell you never sniffed, it was spelled Evostik... /pedant. Or Evo for short. I realise this is the seventies and it was a very long time ago now.

What about thixofix? That was another one, we called that, "the glue for people with lisps."

:coat icon

Mine would be the one with the stuck together polythene bread bags in the pockets...

People take drugs for the same reasons they drink

> "What struck me was that the young people seemed very happy to go through the scanners

> and that they wanted a night free of the problems you get with drugs," he told the Beeb.

What an utter dick!

Most of the problems with drugs are caused by the prohibition of the damn things! It is obvious, but this MP seems to be unable to see it.

Most people, funnily enough, want to avoid problems when going out, but still want to get wrecked at the weekends. That is why they seem to accept intrusion with scanners - it is better than dealers having weapons in clubs (they do mean metal detectors by scanners, right?).

There is demand for drugs, and there always will be: fighting it is futile. When you then ban drugs you spawn an uncontrollable black market, where you get unpredictable products (variable strength and quality), full of people willing to use violence to settle market disputes.

I'm sure the MPs understand why people go out on the weekends and get rat-arsed, so what's there not to understand about going out and getting high? People do it escape the world where we slave for our banking overlords (does not most of what you earn go on rent or a mortgage? And is this not the same for virtually everyone you work with?), it's just drugs offer a subtly different escape than alcohol. I should think that the MPs are treating the drugs as somehow different to alcohol because that is what their rhetoric has spewed for years.... but the differences between alcohol and illegal drugs are rather meaningless in reality - alcohol is just a drug itself. The differences only persist because of the profits to be made through prohibition of some drugs: alcohol has competitors removed, there is a constant supply of users and small time dealers for the police to keep themselves busy with, the legal industry make plenty both prosecuting and defending this steady supply, and the big time organised criminals make huge profits, totally tax free.

Getting rid of prohibition would kill the profits to be made in the black market, making it less attractive for the immensely greedy. It would also mean that quality control can be enforced on drugs, making them safer.

No one in their right mind suggests we prohibit alcohol, so why do people think it would work for drugs? The only people who support prohibition of drugs do not know their history, or have not learnt from it.

Heinsenberg's uncertainty principle in action?

'....have taken advice on the "best club to go to in London".'

There's no point. By definition it'll be one of the ones that isn't full of MPs trying to score coke that night.

Ion Trackers

Drug scanners do exist, they are called Ion Trackers. They will tell the police on a molucular level what you have been touching.

For all those who lambasted said MP because of their own lack of knowledge, pwned.

I wonder how many mp's remember

The iconic phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out"

In their case it's more likely to be turn up, clock in, drop to the pub on tax payers expenses"

hi-robb

"In their case it's more likely to be turn up, clock in, drop to the pub on tax payers expenses"

More true than you imagine.

MP (or their lordships) do not have an actual employment contract. Their *only* obligation is to turn up (and I think their Lordships don't have that) sign in they turned up and, well that's it.

Nice work if you can get it. And there will be a few vacancies coming up.

Gwyn Prosser- what an arse

"What struck me was that the young people seemed very happy to go through the scanners and that they wanted a night free of the problems you get with drugs,"

Surprised that young people don't want to get shot or stabbed?

problems you get with drugs- like not being able to get hold of them? or fending off sweaty cuddlers? or is he talking about alcohol fuelled agression ending in a trip to A&E?