‘Why is alcohol allowed where crucial decisions are made?’
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Do you agree with our readers? Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments. Police are investigating whether a woman had her drink spiked in a bar at the Houses of Parliament (Metro, Fri). Can someone explain to me why alcohol is even served within this workplace where important decisions are made?.
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Train drivers, construction workers, lorry drivers and many other professions have to undergo random drugs and alcohol testing, such is the seriousness of the work involved. Why is it that politicians don’t have to undergo the same? The decisions they make in their workplace affect an entire nation, yet they can make these decisions while under the influence of alcohol.
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Isn’t it time for mandatory drugs and alcohol testing of MPs – especially given some of the decisions that have been made over the last few years! A Scothern, London. ‘Mick Lynch is a decent, honest, principled person’. Samantha (MetroTalk, Wed) says that soon-to-be retired RMT union leader Mick Lynch is ‘one of the most dishonest, vile people in the country’.
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These surely cannot be the thoughts of a sane, rational person. Mick Lynch is a decent, honest, principled person who has stood up for his members in the face of a Labour Party that largely failed to show support for striking workers and a Tory Party intent to disrupt negotiations at every opportunity.
