Is there a severe drug scourge in the most senior offices of the British government?
An investigation by the Sunday Times revealed that at least 11 of the 12 services inspected at the British Legislature's offices found traces of cocaine, both at Westminster Palace where the two houses of parliament are and in offices near the palace, and that senior lawmakers (including ministers) may Have been or are still involved in the illicit use.
House Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has said he will formally ask police to investigate the matter and Conservative MP Charles Walker, who heads the House of Commons' trust committee, said: Drugs. "
Indications were found, among other things, that the drug was also found in services adjacent to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office in Parliament and Interior Minister Priti Patel, as well as in services located near the offices of Labor legislators in the shadow government.
According to the newspaper's investigation, some places should only be for those with a special badge to stay in parliament.
An unnamed source told the newspaper: "I saw a MP from a cocaine branch during a party where there were also journalists and warned them that what they were doing was extremely dangerous but they were on their own."
Another source said that unlike assistants, who do the drugs in public places, "MPs do it in offices."
A wilder place than we thought?
Westminster Palace in London,
The Sunday Times even published a letter from an anonymous source familiar with drug culture in the legislature who wrote: "Everyone knows where to go to get a joint at the end of a work day" he added that he "can not even remember once they did a drug test for He also stressed: "Drugs have become the open secret of the parliament. People talk openly about this or that person taking cocaine or who loves MDMA. I saw an assistant branching drugs from a Member of Parliament's desk. "Elsewhere, it has been a reason for dismissal."
"There is a culture of cocaine in Parliament," a man who has long been in the British legislature told the newspaper. "Some do it all the time, and some just experiment with it.
And according to the newspaper, one of the legislators even named his drug dealer as one of his paid assistants and claimed that this is how he pays him for the drugs he buys from him, and it seems that the legislature was even involved in drug trafficking. himself.
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