Because I would like to be straight up about the fact that my favourite mayor is the mayor of Dover. No other British mayor is even coming close to that right now. Not even close.Mayor of Dover filmed snorting line of white powder off a toilet cistern
— Telegraph, August 31, Year of Our Lord 2k16
I think my absolute favourite thing about public figures being filmed or pictured with what appears to be drugs – there is of course a possibility that Cllr Rix was snorting something else; something not a drug; something he would still choose to snort through a £20 note and off the back of a toilet cistern in a pub, i.e. the exact environment normally reserved for snorting drugs, but maybe they weren't drugs; maybe it was sherbet and he just has a really odd and intense way of consuming sherbet – but one of my favourite things re: leading figures of authority being found possibly with drugs is the excuses they make for how the drugs they were quite often literally video'd snorting were not, actually, in fact, drugs.Case in point:The Mayor of Dover has insisted he will not be resigning after he was filmed in a bathroom snorting a line of white powder off a toilet cistern.
Footage emerged of Councillor Neil Rix, the Mayor of the Kent coastal town, sniffing the powder through a £20 note while accompanied by a friend.
Cllr Rix claims he is the victim of a blackmail plot and that police are investigating.
Speaking after the footage was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday night, he said: "The video forms part of a police investigation into the fact I am being blackmailed.
"It did not happen recently. I was set up, pushed into it and coerced.
"Someone had put drugs into my beer and I did not know I was being filmed."
This is great because it is five excuses in a row. The first excuse: "I have never done it before" does not specify what the "it" in question is, but he has never done it, so fine.Second excuse: "I was drunk."Third excuse, immediately after: "What happened happened."Fourth excuse, which seems to directly fly against the third excuse by denying that, actually, what happened did happen: "I don't even know what I was putting up my nose."And then the fifth excuse, the excuse de resistance, the most absurd of the bunch: "It could have been sherbet for all I know." It… it technically could have been, yeah! It technically could have been sherbet, that you were filmed taking out of your own pocket, in a baggy, and shushing and telling another man in the cubicle with you to close the door, in case people saw you consuming sherbet, and then you snorted the sherbet, that way people do. It's… I'm just saying it's a possibility!Keen to cement his reputation as not only the mayor of Dover, but also the mayor of my heart, Cllr. Rix – who has been an elected member of the Dover Town Council for nine years, and is heard in the video saying "I don't want anyone to see Councillor Rix doing this," a thing you say when you're eating sherbet secretly with your nose – Cllr. Rix has announced that he will not be standing down as mayor as a result of the blackmail plot/YouTube video leak/general scandal. "No, I'm not [quitting] at all," he said. "I'm not standing down."He said he was not a drug user, insisting he was "dead against" drug taking, and he was not sure what type of substance he snorted or where it was filmed.
He said: "I have never done it before. I was drunk. What happened happened. I don't know what it was I was putting up my nose. It could have been sherbet for all I know."