John Prescott

Spinning Millie.

July 5, 2011
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Could there be a more emotive firecracker tossed into the flagellation that is the New of the World hacking scandal? A more despicable, heinous act than accessing ‘Murdered Millie’s’ phone messages? – for she is one of us, adopted by the news reading public, ‘Our Millie’ resides with Baby ‘P’ and ‘Our Maddie’ in the [...]

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Exit to Eden

March 16, 2011
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When it comes to The Deficit, I am a curious bird perhaps unknown to Mother Nature, a pragmatic hawk. I think serious cut backs had to be made or we would, later or more probably sooner, have developed our very own version of Fantasy Ireland (see what I did there?) with more savage cuts imposed [...]

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And the tram now coming into platform 11 has John Prescott splattered on the front of it….

July 11, 2009

Back in March 2000, when John Prescott was still a reasonably respected Deputy Prime Minister, and ‘cloth cap central’ was still hopeful that Blair’s brave Nu-Labour world would rain financial largess on their neanderthal ambitions, the lads in the Wheeltappers and Shunters Club decided to realise one of their grandfather’s long forgotten dreams – to [...]

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Two loos, two jags, two homes, two women, two chins……

May 9, 2009
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A provocative farce of unremitting horror, the finale can not come soon enough. The script is packed with devious manoeuvres and well-honed fiddles.  646 fine actors, under the parliamentary fees office inventive direction, execute slapstick accounts and deliver receipts with near-perfect timing. But the onslaught of escalating troughing seems to grow more desperate as the [...]

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The ‘Go Fourth and Multiply’ Bandits.

May 3, 2009

Over on Plato’s blog I caught up with her piece on the ‘typo’ in Alistair Campbell’s blog. It rang bells, ‘Go fourth and multiply’, I’d heard that phrase before. It wasn’t until I got round to reading John Prescott’s defence of the Prime Minister’s YouTube performance, that the penny dropped. How slow am I? John [...]

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Life on the open blog…….

April 20, 2009

Blogging is the quintessential egalitarian occupation. It is free, open to all, and the anonymity allows for the perfect meritocracy. It should come naturally for Nu-Labourites with their espousal of the creed of a classless society. Yet it doesn’t. Labourlist was not ‘Derek the Pyjamahideen’ in his bedroom, it was state – and union – sponsored astro-turfing. Senior [...]

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