Blair's Cool Britannia Created By Coke

Tony Blair's branding of British culture as 'young' and 'cool' when he first came to power in 1997, helped make cocaine 'Britain's drug of choice' according to a report in this week's Guardian.

"Cocaine is the apotheosis (best example- long word Ed) of age masquerading as youth," said the Guardian.

"Everything about it is grindingly predictable- it will enable you to stay up later than you're biologically able and it will make you talk about yourself very fast. If it characterises an age, then that age is characterised by solipsism (the belief that the only thing somebody can be sure of is that he or she exists'- LW Ed again) and greed."

"I'm not saying it's not fun, I'm just saying it's conformist and the only thing that ever made drug culture cool was that it was subversive," said the Guardian's correspondent.

The death-of-cool-Britannia feature followed a Newsweek article reporting on the decline of Britain's increasingly unpopular PM and followed the publication of data showing an explosion of cocaine use in the UK, including crack.

According to latest figures, between 30 and 45 tonnes of cocaine now enter the UK each year, supplying an estimated 600,000 cocaine users in London alone and 178,000 crack users throughout the UK (Standard).
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