Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

12:20 pm

Photo of John CrownJohn Crown (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Nigella Lawson, a person who is greatly admired by many Members of these Houses, Kate Moss, the Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam, and Russell Brand all have something in common. They have all been prevented or impeded from entering the United States because they have either had a prior record or made a public admission of using rather illegal drugs. The American attitude to such behaviour is sometimes seen as quite draconian. If reciprocity was in place it would mean that none of the last three Presidents of the United States would have been allowed to enter the United Kingdom, because they have all, to a greater or lesser extent, or with greater or lesser degrees of frankness, admitted having interactions with illicit drugs, albeit, in the case of President Clinton, without inhaling.

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