'Those were crack-smoking times,' admits May

THERESA May has admitted she smoked up to ten rocks of crack a day while prime minister because 2016 to 2019 were very much crack-smoking years. 

Following Boris Johnson’s claim that he needed to spend £200,000 on refurbishing Downing Street because it ‘looked like a bit of a crack den’, his predecessor has confirmed it was her recreational substance of choice.

She said: “Cast your mind back. The minute that referendum verdict dropped, the entire nation went insane.

“Brexiters immediately decided it meant a dictatorship run by themselves. Remainers who hadn’t existed a week earlier demanded the flow of time be reversed. These were not challenges one could surmount with the aid of a sweet sherry.

“One night, after we’d watched Vera, my husband Philip turned to me and said: ‘You know what I really fancy? Crack cocaine,’ so we dispatched a constable to score us some. And it went down beautifully.

“After that, and after long days of David Frost and the Malthouse Compromise and all of that nonsense, it became a regular thing. We’d get out our glass pipes and smoke our rocks while listening to only the hardest Jamaican dancehall. It helped us relax.

“And yes, after a while we began to sell the furniture, a dealer moved in, all the usual stuff. But come on. We were on three Brexit votes a night by the end. Crack was the least of it.”

Woman sets healthy boundaries of only doing what she wants to

A WOMAN has informed friends she is prioritising her mental wellbeing by setting boundaries of only doing what she enjoys.

Charlotte Phelps and her therapist have concluded that continually acting in ways that are not in accordance with her desires has proven detrimental to her sense of self and is causing her anxiety, so from now on she will not.

She explained: “For example, I didn’t want to go for Thai for Chris’s birthday last week, because lemongrass causes me distress, because I don’t like it.

“But instead of asserting my boundaries and putting myself first I allowed others to ignore my no, failed to express my discomfort and had a pad chaa I didn’t really want. So you can see what a violation that was.

“From now on I’m setting clear boundaries. If it’s a bar, it has to be one I like. If it’s a film it has to be one I fancy. If I want Kirsty to stop moaning about her ex then she needs to. Otherwise I’m falling into a trap of co-dependency and not valuing myself.

“Asking me to justify my boundaries is a violation. Not acknowledging them is disrespect. Joking about them is a manipulation tactic. Anyway, what are we doing this weekend?”

Friend Tom Logan said: “Does texting cross Charlie’s healthy, necessary boundaries? I can’t remember and can’t text to ask. So I won’t.”