Three Shags* Does Not Deny Other Affairs
John Humphrys did what he is paid to do this morning. Three times he asked Prescott have there been any other affairs? Three times he blustered without answering the question. Because of course there have been many other affairs, not just "one mistake" as he disingenuously repeated over and over again. There is, for example, a blousy Quango Queen yet to be named who has benefitted financially over the years from Prescott's continued patronage.
Prescott's office is spinning the Victoria Beckham line of defence** "we are not going to dignify these allegations with a response", it is a "Tory smear campaign". Guido has some news for Prescott's office, it is more of a Brownite, fingerprint-free "let him hang out to dry campaign". If anything the Tories would prefer him rotting in office with his voter-repulsive reputation on show at all times. The Brownites on the other hand would like an election (or two) this September to coincide with Labour's party conference, and you can be sure that installing Harriet Harman as DPM is not their only objective. Getting rid of Prezza is a way of getting rid of Blair, as Prescott himself has said, "we came as a package"...
UPDATE : According to Iain Dale he was asked eight times, not three, Guido was trying to feed breakfast to Baby Ms Fawkes and listen on a tinny broadband feed from a laptop. Listen online to Prezza's bluster and Nick Robinson On Prezza.
*Three is nowhere near the total figure of course.
Prescott's office is spinning the Victoria Beckham line of defence** "we are not going to dignify these allegations with a response", it is a "Tory smear campaign". Guido has some news for Prescott's office, it is more of a Brownite, fingerprint-free "let him hang out to dry campaign". If anything the Tories would prefer him rotting in office with his voter-repulsive reputation on show at all times. The Brownites on the other hand would like an election (or two) this September to coincide with Labour's party conference, and you can be sure that installing Harriet Harman as DPM is not their only objective. Getting rid of Prezza is a way of getting rid of Blair, as Prescott himself has said, "we came as a package"...UPDATE : According to Iain Dale he was asked eight times, not three, Guido was trying to feed breakfast to Baby Ms Fawkes and listen on a tinny broadband feed from a laptop. Listen online to Prezza's bluster and Nick Robinson On Prezza.
**Victoria Beckham famously took that line against Rebecca Loos, threatened to sue, blustered then dropped it. Because, of course, David Beckham did shag Rebecca Loos.
49 comments:
I don't think Prescott has reached the point at which he has to resign yet because I haven't heard Blair expressing his full confidence in him.
Has anybody trawled through the archives to come up with some amusing comments that Prescott made about Conservative sexual sleaze in the mid-90's?
Pitiful Today prog showing from Prezza - why bleat about allegations regarding affairs, and then refuse to deny the affairs? What a clot. So now it's transparently obvious that he HAS had numerous other affairs...
And what the hell part does cattle ranching play in his cabinet remit? Are they going to fence in Hull and fill it with Texas longhorns? We can only hope. Nice work Guido.
Clearly the dark sidehave a planned and coordinated attack on you and Iain at the moment.
In the last day we have
Nick Robinson attack
Al-Beeb attempted attack last night on Newsnight
Friends of Prezza attacking you 2
Indie piece today
Threat to Iain on his blog
Still no MSM real comments on mass of affairs and of course the real interesting point of the ranch story of who did he actually take with him?
Someone did just that when Prescott was found to have been shagging that one we know about. Full of moral indignation, the lard-arse was.
If he did resign, would anybody know? Apart from evading Harumphry's repeated question "did you bang anyone else?" the lard-arse went on a rampage through the English language, leaving a trail of devastation. There were times when I genuinely didn't know wtf he was going on about.
In an unfortunate Freudian slip, he did at one stage say that he intended to continue "on the job"
Frank Fisher - I've apologised many, many times for my home city inflicting Prescott upon the nation, and I humbly prostrate myself once again. I would ask everyone not to judge us too harshly, but there really is no excuse.
Al-beeb!!!
*laughs at clever witty play on words*
I thought Prezz was on fire this morning- let's hope he doesn't find out where G is holed up.
Hullite - save your apologies. Prestatyn inflicted that piece of scum on us: Prescott is a Welshman.
I wonder whether, once Blair expresses his full support for Mr Prescott and therefore Prezza has to resign, we will see the memoirs of John Prescott being published. I would say that I would love to read them, but I reckon they would be completely incoherent and ultimately pointless, self serving nonsense. Not unlike the man himself, really.
Am I the only one that thinks it is somewhat unfair for Guido to keep raising the Rebecca Loos/Beckham affair? Beckham made a mistake, said sorry, and has moved on. As far as I can make out, he isnt a serial adulterer, nor is he leeching the taxpayer nor is proposing to pave over the entire south of England.
So, can we ease off Becks, in the wake of the world cup, and just give him a break? I am sure , Guido, that you have far juicier and more deserving targets.
Thanks.
How come Newsnight had the FOI documents to hand - they must have made the requests ages ago.
As that is the case, why was the story not run before?
Very fishy going-ons I reckon.
Here's a link to the 2 Prescott pieces on the Today programme:
Nick Robinson On Prezza.
and
The Oaf in person.
Harriet Harman, the Brownite candidate?
Not very well informed, Guido.
Everyone should listen to Prezza in person, it's hilarious. He really does say he met Mr Billions to see how a "cattling" ranch is run and because he likes cowboys - and only remembers the Wilberforce defence at the very end.
Classic Prescott quote this morning: "People must judge me on what I do when I'm 'on the job'"
Pregethwr might also have pointed out (preached even) that Prescott is not a Welshman - he's a scouser in sheep's clothing.
Did anyone catch the bit about wanting to know more about sugar beet farming?
In Colorado?
Jesus - he really thinks he can get away with it this time.
To finally nail the 'Big Barsteward'someone needs to closely look into all his dealings with Bechtel. He grand-fathered Bechtel into UK Nuclear Government contracts with LMU, then NDA as well as Government contracts for Bechtel for the Channel Tunnel Link, West Coast Electrification and the Jubilee Line extension. Why are these rumours not being investigated? In each case, he, or the ODPM rode roughshod over public competition rules -why?
I look forward to Pollard ghosting Prescott's memoirs
Su Pollard?
On the 12th December 1996, Prescott stood in for Blair at PMQ and asked John Major the following question:
"Is the Prime Minister not aware that since 1992 no fewer than 16 Ministers have resigned from his Government, many in shameful circumstances, which is a record number for any Government in British history? No wonder the Tories have lost the trust of the nation. Are we not at last seeing the last throes of a dying, dissembling Government, who should realise that it is time to go?"
It couldn't be a truer representation of the current "dying, disassembling Government", other than in those days Ministers resigned when they were caught in "shameful circumstances."
I think Wee Willy Prescott's insistance that's he'll still be DPM at the end of this year is an act of political self-delusion that cannot have been equalled since Adolf sat before a map table in his bunker and ordered around entire armies that had long ceased to exist.
It'll all end in tears. I trust.
I wonder whether the DPM managed any 'bareback mountin' whilst he was in Colorado?
jeremy vine is going to cover prescott on radio 2 and those "internet rumours".
"It'll all end in tears. I trust."
prescott's rumoured "black book" on NuLab shennanigans?
not quite as amusing as stories concerning george galloway but still amusing!
regards
tom aka the injuredcyclist
Prescott is a yob who should never have held high office.
I'm sure Blair would love to be rid of him but that would mean a deputy leadership election.
The Old Labour voters he's supposed to appeal to must be sick of him by now. What use does he have?
prescott's rumoured "black book" on NuLab shennanigans?
Won't someone have to translate it into English first?
Prescott is a yob who should never have held high office.
In true Soviet style only Yobs get to the top............Prescott is obviously part of the Dneprodzerzhinsk Mafia around Brezhnev
given daves coke past shouldn't you
tories be a bit more careful on this sort of stuff
To answer the question about how Newsnight had the documents to hand - all is explained here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/
Is the blowsy Quango Queen by any chance related to fanlight Fanny the frowsy night club queen? I think we should be told.
My favourite bit of the interview was when he tried to justify his existence and he stated that he would be meeting the prime minister of ghana this afternoon to open a wilberforce (him again) museum in the shit hole that is Hull
Thank god it only costs us £2 million a year to have somebody do that for us.
Come to think of it Prince Charles is cheaper and far nicer.
Is Guido scared of something .. post keep appearing on here, then going again .. so much for freedom of speech
Rog has a point: the Colorado sugar-beet industry is in the doldrums, not affected so much by WTO issues (very few mid-US states really are) but more by over-cultivation in the recent past and resultant pesticide resistance. Try Googling 'sugar beet colorado' and you will be overwhelmed with material, much of it genuinely relevant. So why did Prezza need to visit the ranch "to find out about sugar beet" (as per the Humphreys interview this morning) in the first place ? His staff could have done a full fact-find using Google inside 30 minutes from within their hotel rooms.
Also, given that any hard-pressed Minister will always plead a constituency interest, how much sugar beet is actually cultivated within Prezza's (almost entirely urban) Hull constituency ? There will certainly be quite a lot grown in adjacent Lincolnshire, but that is the 'patch' of local Tory MPs, and it is bad form for one MP to trespass upon the terrain of another (Mr Speaker has been known to get quite cross about this.)
Anonymong @ 2.07
This is private property. Guido deletes idiots, agent provocateurs and anyone he feels like. Mostly he is deleting people who could get him a writ.
Get your own blog and attract your own writs. Guido has enough on his plate.
Comment moderation is now switched on because it is becoming tiresome.
I was alarmed to hear the Deputy Prime Minister's solution to the housing problem right at the end of the interview was to "turn the homeless into houses" - will they be able to withstand bad weather?
Guido,
Entirely support your editorial of fools, knaves and charlatans.
You wouldn't be so stupid as to take writ-inducing content from any old crook from Sepulveda Boulevard, would you?
Fliping brilliant blog.
The odds shown on the Betfair website for the winner of the Super Casino Licence list Blackpool as favourite (1.63) and Greenwich as 2nd favorite (5.5). Should we ask Prezza how many meetings he had had with the owner of the Blackpool site?
I don't know if he has but it might be worth asking. After all he could have had an excuse to visit the Pleasure beach and reminisce his childhood in the same way he was a western/cowboy fan. I understand the owner of blackpool is also a billionaire so maybe an obvious attraction for Prezza.
I thought your bloggers may be interested in a little known piece of New Labour History. It is hardly surprising that many New Labour ministers are so enamoured with important people in America. I believe that New labour became an embryonic political entiny in that Great Country, shortly after the American Civil War. In those days the party was affectionately known as "carpetbaggers". Please somebody correct me if I have interprted my history wrong (I have probably had a New Labour schooling).
Does Blair win the lottery by backimng the house before the roulette wheel is installed ?
I wonder how much he has stashed away now
"Guido was trying to feed breakfast to Baby Ms Fawkes and listen on a tinny broadband feed from a laptop..."
Oh dear, this sounds distressingly like breakfast chez Worth, albeit with slightly smaller junior personnel. In fact the Worth junior personnel member is now big enough to insist that R4 is turned off if J Humphreys ("that man") is on. NB suggest you try a Roberts radio in the kitchen.
Guido - if you know the names of the other mistresses, why not publish? You've named RW, and if the others are certain also, why leave it there?
"NB suggest you try a Roberts radio in the kitchen."
Roberts, being British, probably doesn't work in French kitches.
David Chappell:
Lordy, is he still there? I'd entirely forgotten about the one man wine lake reduction mission. In fact, radio 4 isn't bad on 198 khz in many parts of France, so a Roberts might just cope.
prezza and a greek buisnesman...
and a greek buisnesman's son.....
?
John says
Didn't Prescott once say that they (the tories) had their snouts in the trough, apparently Tracey had her snout in his trough, that clearly was a bad 'blow' for new labour
Where can I find a list of Precott's mistresses?
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