Politicians confess before they get found out unless you're Trump

In Britain the Coservative politicians who are ocmpeting to be the next prime minister are going through the confessing-all stage. It's a good old tradition in the UK. Fearing that some tabloid newspaper will discover something wicked or devious or just naughty in their lives they come forward and speak to a selected media outlet and reveal all with the rather pathetic "I was young", "I regret it", "It was a long time ago." "Well didn't everyone do that at some point in their lives." It's all rather embarrassing and desperate. So Michael Gove, running far behind Boris Johnson but still a good-odds contender, has confessed to the Daily Mail where his wife is a columnist (hoho that was an easy arrangement for him then) that an awfully long time ago when he was a junior reporter he took cocaine but now deeply regrets it. I bet he didn't deeply regret it at the time. He probably thought it was spiffing and rather jolly. Anyway, now that he is a serious politician who wants to be prime minister he wants everyone to know that taking cocaine at whatever age is a bad thing and damaging for your health. I wonder if there are any other skeletons in the Gove cupboard. Just a bit of cocaine-taking, is that all? Anyway he's done his bit for the honesty box. Then Jeremy Hunt, foreign secretary, confessed he had tried cannabis a million years ago and Rory Stwart, international development secretary, who has a past as an adventurer and once walked across Afghanistan, admitted he had smoked opium at a wedding in Iran. Well you would wouldn't you! So all the druggie stuff is out and now they can concentrate on becoming prime minister!! If Rory Stewart, a pretty good chap by the way, had failed to confess, would one of the wedding guests have come forward and told The Sun, "Hey that bloke who wants to be prime minster was at the opium pipe all day at the wedding." Possibly, so Rory thought it best to come clean. It's a sort of ritual, this sudden confession time, although I am waiting for Boris Johnson to come forward and speak to the tabloids. He has a lot of fun and games in his past. But, like Donald Trump, he would probably get away with it because he is that sort of chap. Trump wouldn't dream of confessing anything from his past. If something dirty comes up in the next 18 months he will just lable it as fake news. Perhas Boris, great friend of Trump, will do the same.