Going 'Nutts'

Ok first off I would like to state I wasn't even aware until a few weeks ago that there was a fully fledged drugs advisory board that was in almost constant use. It kinda explains a lot. So the latest big, official, reported-by-the-Telegraph controversy for Brown to have to climb the mountain of was the sacking of one of the members of this board, namely Professor David Nutt:

At the ripe old age of 17 I've been exposed to a whole load of PSHE lessons, and with this comes a whole load of drug education. The nurse at my particular college became near hysterical when giving us our annual little 'chat' about drugs. Clearly she agrees with the Government's reclassification of Cannabis (or if you're into that sort of thing skunk/weed/I'm not really sure of any others...). More liberal visitors to our school have then talked about how maybe reclassification came as a result of limited hysteria. The science teachers, none of whom have roles in the PSHE department it must be noted, taught us that no one really knows about Cannabis, although 'E' or Ecstasy was avoided at GCSE level. The whole thing is a bit of a mess really.

A bit of a mess is exactly what this sacking implies. Anybody who's been employed/employed someone/watched a crime drama/watched Casualty will be quite aware that sacking people just because they have said something that doesn't follow your line on the issue isn't really the democratic way to do things, particularly when that person knows more about the issue than you do. In fact to me (and this maybe because of my over exposure to them at A Level) it has smatterings of the dictatorships of Europe in the early 20th Century. Somehow I don't think that's the look Gordy was going for. But then again, controversy about drugs is cool: every western politicians association-of-choice Obama did it so it must be!