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    3 days ago

    He told Kuenssberg that politicians who admitted taking drugs and then advocated for incarcerating drug users were taking a “hypocritical approach”, when a “public health approach” was needed to prevent deaths.

    Hear hear

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      3 days ago

      HE SAID THAT POLITICIANS WERE HYPOCRITES AND A PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH SHOULD BE TAKEN TO COMBAT DRUG USE.

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        2 days ago

        HELL YEAH BROTHER, I’M CRANKIN’ MY HO- sorry, wrong community.

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      excellent policy by the green guy

      a holistic approach on drugs will change the world

      the hypocrisy does not matter

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    Like the guy but he leads the Greens FFS lol

    Edit: Left the comment first thing and realising now the phrasing is ambiguous. Should have read:

    “I like the guy but I’m skeptical he has never tried drugs given that he leads the Greens lol”

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        I was just implying that people in the Greens have a reputation for being assosicated with cannibis legalisation so I thought the headline was funny.

        My personal policies are actually the opposite of what will likely be on the Green manifesto however I like the man as a person, and respect him. To my eye he seems to have the X-factor that the public seem to engage with, backed up by a consistent set of beliefs and a vision.

        Depending on how strong his vision is, I might be tempted to vote for him regardless of my personal policy preferences because vision has been missing for a long time in UK politics.

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      That’s right, britain will never have a non whig-tory party in power.

      Whoops, wrong century.

      That’s right britail will never have a non Labour-conservative party in power.

      Ignore Reform UK being either opposition or government next elections.