Sunday, July 09, 2006
Not a Good Day for the Rt Dishonourable John Prescott MP
As far as I can see from the online editions of the Sunday papers there is no single major revelation on Prescott, but the cumulative coverage is massive. Threats from Anschutz to ditch his investment in the dome, gifts to Prescott which haven't been declared, Prescott flouncing out of the Cabinet on Thursday, Miliband being lined up as his replacement and much much more. All in all, not a good day for Two Shags. Again. I predict now that more Labour MPs will start to call for his head. And that some time during the next seven days they'll get it. On a platter.
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"I predict now that more Labour MPs will start to call for his head. And that some time during the next seven days they'll get it. On a platter."
Not if it doesn't suit Tony's ambitions.
If Anschutz ditches the Dome (and consequently the casino bid), that can only be a good thing for my town!
There's been much discussion of it amongst my circles over the past few days...
Don't know if it is 'insignificant' (or even new) news, but I've just found this:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1168233.ece
It's news to me, anyway... If it's got substance, anyway.
There's not another report due out soon on the Met and Ian Blair, is there?
No, there's no smoking gun in the Sunday papers. To me it comes across as a bit seems of a damp squib. Where was this 'bimbo eruption' that you people were rumour mongering about? I think unless anything more comes out in the next few days he will be in the clear. Good old Prezza wins the day again.
I cannot see how he can stay on.
No major revelation, but Prescott received a Stetson hat and expensive cowboy boots from Anschutz.
I wonder if he wears his cowboy clothes when he plays croquet at his country resisdence.
If only I could use Photoshop properly.
Well, at least its nice he can rely on the support of a long time colleague & friend Rosie Winterton - the mail has quite a long article on her:
http://tinyurl.com/jo8eo
I shall be very surprised if Prescott resigns completely from either the Cabinet or from the office of DPM. Perhaps Mr Blair will perform a further token gesture and strip Prescott of a few duties, but my money says that JP will remain more or less intact from this week's revelations. As was said previously, he is "the only person trusted by both Blair and Brown to oversee the smooth, orderly transition between them". If we really want to destroy Prescott (and TB/GB too) then we need to focus on the real meaning behind that statement. I have a gut feeling that whatever it might be, it would make these current revelations look like chickenfeed by comparison.
Hmmmm...so Prescott used to be involved as a trade union man "down on the docks", eh? Plenty of scope there. Something tells me that's where to start digging for clues. What foreign trips did he make back in those days? Was he accompanied by TB and/or GB? I'm just speculating...All I feel sure of is that for some reason, Prescott felt safe enough to blow a sarcastic kiss at the media photographers the other day, as if to say "sod you, I'm here to stay". He's an uneducated, embittered oaf alright, but he's not as daft as he seems. He thinks he has covered his tracks and that he's safe. Now it's up to those with connections and sources, such as Iain and Guido et al, to uncover and "bring into the light" what must be made known!
I'm told Prezza was in Sheffield on Friday for a 'sod turning' event to launch a new industrial estate. He was the guest of his old mate Bplsover MP Dennis Skinner. Apparently he joked in his speech that he'd been advised not to be photographed posing with a hard hat and shovel!
Perhaps even he realises the end is near....
I get the feeling that increasing numbers of people are beginning to wonder if speculations like tom tyler's might have some basis in fact. Knowing which cupboards contain skeletons is a time-tested survival strategy, and not just in politics. And if that were the case, then it's something very big and very juicy.
Doubt anything will ever come to light, though. Mind you, if he pops out for a walk one dark winter night, falls off the Humber Bridge and quite coincidentally there's an unexplained fire at his solicitors office....
Ah! I love the stench of conspiracy in the mornings.
So... the meejah attempted to build up a feeding frenzy - but they failed. The Prescott is not going, because Blair finds him so useful (look at that fat prat - I'm so chic, cool and pretty by contrast) - and poor Iain and his blogger friends controlled from CCO are left to damp their tears at yet another failed attempt. Whilst the NL spin-meisters have skillfully diverted attention, first with the massively orchestrated 7/7 remembrance day (does it really justify it's own 2-mins silence - what about all the people the IRA killed for God's sake??) and now with the Cameron emails. The Cameron Gang has a long way to go to move from Notting Hill discussions to real power moves. NL are not a bunch of babies; if the analogy now was World War 2, we would still be in 1941 and Hitler master of Europe. With slavering pathetic Hermann Prescott trumpeting his mastery.
I'm bored with Prescott now, really don't care if he stays or goes.
Much as I detest the man I think that his continued survival as both DPM and NuLab DL will inflict escalating damage to the electoral prospects of the Labour Party. To that extent I rather hope he 'Carries on Regardless' so-to-speak. And he doesn't need any lessons from the 'Carry on' team - arrogant illiterate bullying aside, he's a one-man carry-on farce anyway.
The Mail on Sunday has a very humourous two-page spread on the importance of the Rt Hon Rosie Winterton MP to Mr Prescott's career. Apparently she "knows how to handle him"...
Never mind Prescott! It looks like the hot summer has affected Dave Cameron's brain too. Who on earth advised him to fall in love with "Hoodies". Having had two relatives badly beaten up and robbed by these "misunderstood" young thugs, I think it's high time he realised that the British public clearly don't share his "Liberal" views and want a tough approach to gangs wanting to hide their identity from security cameras. Why else do they wear hoods in this weather?
james said...
"If Anschutz ditches the Dome (and consequently the casino bid), that can only be a good thing for my town!"
I can't see any possibility of that - tens of millions have already been spent.
"Who on earth advised [Cameron] to fall in love with "Hoodies". Having had two relatives badly beaten up and robbed by these "misunderstood" young thugs, I think it's high time he realised that the British public clearly don't share his "Liberal" views and want a tough approach to gangs wanting to hide their identity from security cameras."
Totally agree - it's high time Dave stopped trying to be all things to all men (and women). It just doesn't work and makes him appear an opportunist with no sincerely held convictions of his own.
peter from putney
Not that the polls are always reliable but Dave and his sidekick Francis are manifestly in denial given that - even against this government - the Tories have a derisory lead.
The trouble with this and all other predictions is that if they come true, you are regarded as prescient and wise. If they don't, they are forgotten in an instant and your repuation is intact. Such predictions are v. cheap indeed.
Patrick, not true. I am well aware that if I make such a prediction and I get it wrong, i have egg on my face, as the comment is still here for people to see!
Re my (admittedly ignorant and wild) speculations that there is more to this whole Prescott thing than at first meets the eye....
I spat my cornflakes as far from my mouth as did anyone, when, one morning several years ago, the news of John Major's affair with Edwina Currie (of all people!) burst onto the front pages.
When I had recovered from the sheer slapstick hilarity of it all, and I thought about the wider implications, it really made me think....
So, JM apparently had an affair with EC, years before he became prime minister. Major, at that time a relatively unknown player, rose through the ranks so quickly to become prime minister, following Lady Thatcher's sudden demise. Thatcher was seen by many conservatives at the time, to be "losing her grip". Her disastrous "poll tax" initiative was viewed as the final straw - the Lady was being painted as almost a kind of "Caligula" character by the press. What was needed was to replace her with someone who would be the total antithesis to Thatcher; someone more moderate, more malleable, above all, more CONTROLLABLE. Someone to whom the Party chiefs could say "now look here, young chap, you do things OUR way, or we'll turn the screws on you". In short, what was required was someone with a secret dark cloud hanging over them, someone who could be controlled via the threat of blackmail.
A select few within the "Westminster Village" MUST have known about Major and Currie's dalliance, and I think that Major was therefore under their thumbs (whoever "they" were) the whole time he was PM.
Amazingly (and actually, this is the weird thing about it, it's SO amazing that it actually makes me wonder at times whether the "affair" story was even true!) the story was kept under wraps until long after Major's electoral defeat in 1997. Thinking back, you have to admire Major's sheer guts, for launching the "Back to Basics" campaign, knowing all the time that if this story got out at that time, it would surely have sunk not only himself as PM, but the entire Conservative government! Very strange...
Anyway, all I'm trying to say is, I am inclined to believe that a similar sort of situation is again playing itself out, with Tony and Gordon as the puppets, and Prescott the pupetteer (and perhaps others are pulling Prescott's strings in turn).
Do I have any idea of what I'm talking about? - Heck, no! But it's all good fun and frolics!
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