(with apologies to Al Franken...) John Prescott is a big fat idiot
Lastly tonight, a gratuitous egg-chuck at the large and growing target that is John Prescott. After turning hardcore Labour voters in Wales against him, he has the gall to attack Charles Kennedy for being a tired new father and for getting into a verbal twist when explaining the Lib Dems' local income tax plans. Well John, all I can say is you must have been running lessons on spouting random garbage at Westminster and perhaps Kennedy wandered in by mistake thinking it was the bar?
Prescott turned in one of the few highlights of the '01 campaign when he chose 29-year old farm worker Craig Evans, from North Wales, as a sparring partner after being hit with an egg, but this time round he can't even manage a little comedy moment like that. It's rumoured that the ludidcrously titled Office of the Deputy Prime Minister' will become little more than an empty shell of a department after the election, and the amazing thing looking back on it is that Prescott survived with even a residual influence on policy for 8 years when there were plenty of backbench MPs with more brains in their pocket watches. An obvious point, and something of a cheap shot, but the man himself knows no other kind! Until the next time, John...
Prescott turned in one of the few highlights of the '01 campaign when he chose 29-year old farm worker Craig Evans, from North Wales, as a sparring partner after being hit with an egg, but this time round he can't even manage a little comedy moment like that. It's rumoured that the ludidcrously titled Office of the Deputy Prime Minister' will become little more than an empty shell of a department after the election, and the amazing thing looking back on it is that Prescott survived with even a residual influence on policy for 8 years when there were plenty of backbench MPs with more brains in their pocket watches. An obvious point, and something of a cheap shot, but the man himself knows no other kind! Until the next time, John...
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Don't underestimate Prescott. He may not look good on the hustings, but you can tell a lot about politicians from what their civil servants think about them (Howard, for example, was generally despised as too stupid to know what he didn't know). And Prescott is generally regarded as a very quick study and a good mucker in. ODPM is Blair's Strategic Management Unit, and Prescott is his fixer. Within those limits he is probably the right man in the rigt job. I wouldn't write him off yet.
ODPM is certainly the most stupidly named department of modern times! Maybe there is more to Prescott that meets the eye... it just seems to me that every majoe initiative he's been involved in (integrated transport policy, English regional assemblies, M4 bus lane, etc.) has simply failed to achieve what it set out to achieve. But let's wait and see where he ends up after the election.
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