C'mon Nick, What Bombshell?
Nick Robinson blogs that Prescott's mistress was "a bombshell" to his family and colleagues. Bullshit Nick. It was hardly a bombshell to the lobby or his colleagues. Trevor Kavanagh admits he knew of Prezza's serial adultery, half the less connected Westminster village from the lowliest research assistant and up knew.
If the political editor of the BBC finds this a bombshell, he is either being disingenuous or is in the wrong job.
If the political editor of the BBC finds this a bombshell, he is either being disingenuous or is in the wrong job.
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His reportage is remarkably 'beige' anyway. That's probably why he got the job: he's far too banal and moderate to ask any hard questions in the first place.
In fairness, NR says that the STORY was a bombshell, not the affair!
I wasn't even the lowliest research assistant - I was an even lowlier intern, who'd been there about a week, when I heard the story.
As Mr. R Monkey notes, is there even the slightest possibility that Prezza has taken one for the team here?
I like the metaphor, Charlieboy. Clarke has the ball, Prescott makes a dummy run on the blind side, defence all over the place, Clarke over the line.
"It was your turn to score, lad" says Prescott in the bath after the game.
I thought something was up when he started working out in the gym three times a week. But he should know that losing weight makes you look older.
How many more enemies can Mr Tony afford to make? Or are we at the bunker stage already?
The real meat here is not just the shagging, its going to be proving fatso has given somebody a leg up in return for a leg over.
If he has 'taken one for the team', isn't quite a nice way to do it ? A shag and champagne two year affair. Can't be bad now can it ?
Note: A serial adulterer ? Please. Thats going a little too far don't you think ?
Lets not forget that the lovely pauline was a bit of a goer in her youth,
oh to have seen the look on Fattys face when he found out the son she gave up for adoption was a true blue tory voting colonel in the british army.
Prezza's future certainly doesn't look too rosie, sorry, rosy.
This is New Labours best day ever, in fact it is a good day to remind the public about "cash for honours" mustn't take our eye off the ball must we?
Why did Tony rush off after PMQ's?
Helping with enquiries perhaps!
Nick Robinson isn't the only one expressing shock.
Here's the Guardian's political editor: "As for the Daily Mirror's scoop, John Prescott, 67, carrying on for two years with Tracey Temple, 43, a divorced secretary working in his private office at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, I can only say I am surprised. But then, I always am."
Too important to hang out with the tabloid boys, perhaps?
Rosie Winterton MP is Minister of State for Health Services at the Department of Health, having served as Minister of State at the Department since June 2003.
Between 2001 and June 2003 Rosie Winterton was Parliamentary Secretary at the Lord Chancellor's Department. She has been Member of Parliament for Doncaster Central since 1997.
Compare Robinson's coverage of the Blair/Brown local election campaign launch with that of every other political correspondent there. You usually expect a little more analysis from someone with that with such a great job title.
Still, Prescott did say he would die in a ditch for Tony Blair. He may get his chance.
Educated Hull university
and on her CV
Previous Employment:
Head of Office of John Prescott, MP (1994-1997)
I quite like Nick Robinson, he usually quite truthful and isn't as, "oh my god, this is the biggest story in the history of the fucking world" as other tv political journos are.
I must say I do like the idea that the Labour party has a stash of scandalous stories to put out whenever they wan't to deflect attention away from a something else.
Maybe the next 'Blair's worst ever week' we get they'll release the story about Blair's daughter.
The 'good day to bury bad news' strategy begins to look a bit lame when they have to use one bad news story to bury another. But help may be at hand. Bin Laden has promised another attack against the USA - a perfect opportunity to sack 5,000 nurses, tear up the GP contract and create a few more dodgy peers.
Shocked? I'm impressed. 2 jags, 3 shags (1 well outside his weight) - done well for a cabin boy. Double G&Ts please Giovanni.
No rail tickets for his various bints? Any hint of public funds (who pays his laundry bills) being wasted?? Any suggestion that She Who Must Not Be Named got her 'leg up' into the PLP and/or 'higher orifices' through him???
Final note - Is it me, or do they all resemble a prole wanker fantasy of Nanny?
Humph, do you think there is a story about Blair's daughter, or are you just speculating?
There is a story about Blair's daughter, about two years old now.
Could I suggest that anonymous lay off a two year old story about a poor teenage girl in the disfunctional Blair family. Why should she have this crap circulating again. Its dirty and not kind to the kid whose got enough problems.
Underage pregnancy?
The mind boggles.
bedehouse said: "disfunctional family" "crap circulating AGAIN" "dirty" ???
Are you serious? Or is this a wind-up? If something had happened, surely we would have heard about it, wouldn't we?
May - no, there are such stories that circulate newsrooms about the country and these include the one about TB's daughter, which is OTR verifiable. That said it's not reported because it's just not appropriate or legitimate news - and with that we should just draw a veil over it.
Stories about adults however are fair game.
I have some sympathy for Blair's daughter, and at the risk of being a rank hypocrite, am content that /the/ story didn't make the mainstream media. However, the tale is eminently google-able.
Nasty man that I am here is what she did.....
the poor kid tried to kill her self with a drug overdose.
I agree that maybe she deserves some privacy,however, her scumbag parents like to milk the happy family image, so now you know and hopefully this subject can now be dropped.
I say the "bombshell" is that confused MP Simon Hughes not only has a Bobby Charlton wrap over but also dyes his hair
With the exception of Michael Fabricant we Tories have far better hair than any of the other parties.
Charles Clarke, Charles Clarke, Charles Clarke, Charles Clarke, Charles Clarke, Charles Clarke, Charles Clarke (etc ad infinitum)
This is the bad news Giovanni and his yawn-out-of-date affair was supposed to bury.
Guido - where's your CC hatchet???
I'd better stop saying Blair should send HIS kids to Iraq! It must be hell for them.
TPUP,thanks,you've saved me the google.poor girl
whilst I wouldn't know about prezzas story being a bombshell, the mistress isn't.
Mellor,t***er though he was,at least pulled way over his head.
but i do like him on classic fm
New Labour adultery is okay - because the Tories have been doing it for years.
Anyway - he's only doing to his secretary what he's been doing to the electorate ...
So here's the real question - the announcement of which affair made you wretch / splutter / laugh / cry (delete as appropriate) the most:
Was it Prezza, Cook, Blunkett, Major or Oaten?
Laugh - Oaten by a mile
Mr Bailey I think it has to be mark oaten eating rentboy poop, how his wife will ever be able to kiss the shameless sub human lowlife again i cant imagine,mind you at least they got a nice few quid from hello magazine "hello will you crap on me for £75 and can i rely on your vote?"
good idea RB
wretch-blunkett-can't understand birds and beards,good pull on his part though.
splutter-definitely Major,norma's fucking gorgeous
laugh-oaten,without a doubt-felt sorry for his mrs though
cry-cook,the mere thought of him mincing across heathrow airport to dump Mrs Cook on the advice of a spin doctor brings tears to my eyes (laughter mind).cos,like, he was so important,yeah but,no but.TB missed his funeral cos he didn't fucking matter (whatever he may have believed himself) not because he was a short arsed egotistical ginger twat
im just wondering what libellous thing i can put up here, knowing that Guido is in bed having been up since dawn and having got shitfaced the night before
Wrong, have just got in....
John Major's Government gets a nice rosy-sepia tint with the passage of tme and the smell of decaying fruitdropping off the Nu Lab tree
Hmm - laughed at Oaten and Prescott, wretched at Cook, spluttered at Major. I imagine I ought to seek psychiatric help, but Edwina Currie had a certain je ne sais quoi.
Along vaguely similar lines, maybe we should go for a round or two of 'Marry, shag, push off a cliff'.
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