Prescott Does It Again

Silent Hunter

Ferrets in a sack.

Who cares what anyone from Labour says anymore?

Prodicus

Am I bovvered?

Paulme

Completely incoherent as always; puts me in mind of Idi Amin although as yet there is no evidence Prescott has murdered anybody. Gordon on the other hand has all the body language of someone who pushes random strangers under tube trains.

David Lindsay

He's right, of course.

How Charles Clarke thinks that losing an Opposition Day motion or a House matter (which is always a free vote) is some sort of killer blow, I honestly cannot imagine. Mortifying to Georgia Gould or Georgia Osborne, perhaps. But Gordon Brown is a big boy. As is Charles Clarke. Or so we had thought.

Not very long ago at all, any MP who stated publicly that he was ashamed to be in the Labour Party would have been told that that was all right, because he was no longer in it. Close the door on the way out. Twenty years ago, or thereabouts, two Trotskyist MPs were expelled from Labour. And forty years before that, or thereabouts, so were half a dozen Stalinist MPs.

The old Stalinist Clarke and the old Trotskyist Stephen Byers should at the very least have the Whip withdrawn, probably taking Haze of Dope with them, and possibly also a couple of others such as John Reid. The Mandelsons, Milibands and Huttons inside the tent could then take the hint.

How many parties are there on the Labour benches? Supposedly, there are two: the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party. The maintenance of any third has historically been crushed without mercy. Why is that not happening today?

mac

Ah, yes, Giovanni Prescott. DETR super-minister of fond memory. Would-be bequeather of his constituency to his son. The very epitome of New Labour . . .

Steve.W

Martin – (Second try with this) On the 19th April Blog you said -

“Is there any hope? Oddly I have become increasingly impressed with the John Prescott's Go Fourth campaign.”

Then, oddly, today you say -

“It was vintage John Prescott on the Today programme today. Utterly incoherent”

You also use the words “vicious” and “bitchiness” to describe him.

Vintage John Prescott, I agree, the man has always been a mannerless pathetic fool with dock-sized jowls in reverse proportion to his brain. So what happened on the 19th to have you change your mind?

David K

It's Pressa's last desperate chance to get himself a peerage bequeathed by The Hopeless One, in exchange for a few poisonous words which, as ever, are not even in the correct order. Truly pathetic.

Paul T Horgan

Somehow, I don't forsee Prescott setting foot in Bracknell. Is someone tracking where this oaf is going. What is his strategy? Is he visiting marginals? Or is he visiting solid Labour seats to try to shore up the vote? Is his wife with him?

Gil

Two Johns fake 'arguing' and one country in the John.

Road Rocket

Hey, don't knock him. He's one of the best recruiting tools the Tories have got. Just to hear the fool's utterances simply reinforces the view that New Labour in its present form must be voted out. The sad man cannot see what damage he is doing to his own party - simply by talking.

JohnAnt

I wonder if we'll make the same discoveries about Prezza as we have done about Jack Jones. Harold Wilson certainly claimed publicly - and on several occasions - that the 1966 Seamen's Strike was a conspiracy by Communist union leaders. Prezza was one of the most active union leaders. 2 + 2=

Ian C

Would love to know what other excuses Blunkett can come up with in order to stay away from Prescot. How about "I'm going to the cinema." !!!