Labour Activists Embarrassed By Prescott
The comments on LabourHome say it all;
Surely somebody else could be put up to doing PMQS. Prescott has had most of his other jobs taken from him. Usually, it's a laugh (mostly at him, but he can crack a good joke every now and then), but even by his own awful standards, it was an embarrassment.
I firmly believe that John Prescott should have been sacked and should not even be in the position.
JP had been encouraged to be "off sick"
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lol..
He makes me sick!
I trust you spotted the guy sat behind Prescott making the 'tossing' gestures during PMQs. Who was he, and perhaps more importantly, who were they aimed at?
So he even embarasses his freinds and colleagues.
Is there anybody who actually thinks the fat buffoon is worthy of the title of Her Majesty's Deputy Prime Minister?
Encapsulating in one, large, slobbering hulk everything that is the Dark Side of NewLab - unaccountable, unintelligle and unaware of how the rest of the world perceives him. The longer this hapless buffoon is paraded as part of the leadership cadre (Why? He must have some SENSATIONAL pictures), the heavier the margin of Labour's defeat.
I think you are being a little hard on Mr Prescott, I remember a while ago he was quoted as saying "The green belt is a great achievement and we should build on it".
A Noble sentiment well put I thought. Not only that his subsequent actions confirmed he is a man of his word.
A National Treasure.
DP
He's a fat, incompetant twat. One has to wonder what he has on Bliar to be allowed to remain in office.
Three cheers for Mr Prescott.....he exists to allow the electorate insight into the finest minds at the top of this Gorventment...the Tory vote will be a pooper thing without Our Johnie!
poorer......groan
He's incompetent, power hungry, ill-judged and a walking disaster: send the man to Bruxelles, he'd make an ideal EU Commissioner.
Compared to my name sake at the Evening Standard, Prescott's a true professional! Good on you JP! As hard as it is to fathom, but there's a far bigger tosser than you out there.
"Labour Activists Embarrassed By Prescott"
No more challenging headlines available?
"Snow is cold"?
"Rain is wet"?
"Tories are T@ssers"?
where the fuck is catesby?
It was a shame that JP was not up against Ming, the thought of Ming getting his prompt/joke cards mixed up and Prescott aswering the wrong question would be hilarious!
On "The Daily Politics" the perception panel showed that Prescott scored just as badly during PMQs with Labour voters as Tories. More importantly, when broken down into regions he was far more unpopular with Northerners than Southerners. People have seen through Prescott's chip on the shoulder act of "anyone who doesn't like me is a southern snob. They hate me because I'm a Northern (born in Wales), working class (actually middleclass) lad who didn't have no education (he went to Ruskin College, Oxford.)"
david w - the tosser gesture guy is shotgun. He does it all the time anyway.
anonymous 8:50 sorry it still doesn't top "Labour in hock to the unions" on the obviousness scale.
Which twit used the 'tosser' theme in the advert in the first place - it was going to back fire. If you are going to give prezza a stick he will beat people with it and it says little about the leaderships judgement that they went with this ill concieved campaign.
Like David W I am seriously dying to know who 'blue tie man' sitting behind our FO woman Beckett was. Surely you could offer a t-shirt if he 'confesses'. Perhaps he could even offer a 'witty' explanation of what that hand gesture was...
9:18 AM
"Prescott...who didn't have no education (he went to Ruskin College, Oxford.)"
Can't argue with that then.
On the Tory Tossers issue
Really - Who in Tory focus group land, upon hearing 'What about calling it one's inner tosser' thought it was the best idea for the campaign.
Surely not Dave himself.
Folks, surely you have to concede that if Prezza didn't exist, the Parliamentary sketch writers would have to invent him.
It must be something about deputies... or in America, vice presidents.
Think of Nixon's VP, Spiro Agnew ("Spiro The Veep", 'cause he was of Greek descent) whose name is an anagram of "grow a penis", and whose standing was so high that the question, "What kind of watch does Mickey Mouse wear?" was answered with, "A Spiro Agnew watch." Agnew must surely be Prescott's role model. If so, the best is yet to come. After he resigned (OK, was forced to resign) the Veepery, Agnew went on to write a novel, 'The Canfield Decision', about a vice president who was "destroyed by his own ambition."
Then of course, there's Dan Quale, VP to Bush the Father, who must surely be Johnny-boy's verbal role model:
"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. I know how true that is."
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
"No matter how rough the road may be, we will never surrender to what is right."
"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
"If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."
10.36 anon. "never had no education" was a quote written in Prescott venacular.
charlotte:
I think it was more about Ruskin not being particularly academic....it isn't anything to do with the University you know.
From their web site:
"Ruskin College is an independent college based in Oxford that specialises in providing educational opportunities for adults with few or no qualifications."
"There are links to Certificates and Diplomas of Higher Education, Degrees Courses, and our MAs in Women's Studies and Public History."
Need I say more?
2br - good post. But my view is that a pop group with any sense always hires a crap support act, to avoid the danger of being upstaged.
Having a considerably inferior deputy is just smart politics. Or putting an enemy in that position will neutralise them - in the mould of Michael Heseltine.
You mentioned Ruskin College. Guess who is there today ?! Good to know that the educational future of children is in safe hands ! Cooking, Communication and Crime, I think...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,591-2478839,00.html
The problem with the 2br theory is that I'm pretty sure that Prescott wasn't appointed by Blair but was elected. This begs the question: who was the other candidate who was even crappier than Prescott? I've a feeling it was Margaret Beckett.
Prescott's appointment as DPM really was one of the most extraordinary miscastings in British political history; that he will have occupied that office for a decade is a national embarrassment.
Why is everyone so hard on poor old Johnny? All these expressions of horror seem to me to be a mixture of middle-class disdain, envy and bad grace.
You pitiless gits would't be happy with anyone except, presumably, yourselves; At least he hates tories. A fairly unusual and (I'd have thought) precious quality these days.
If John Boy hates Tories, then he must loathe in extremis Arch Tory Tony, the Butcher of Iraq. There, John Boy HAS redeeming features.
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