tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post4820003726815067364..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Prescott's Bulimia: A Story of Pressure Cooker PoliticsIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-10181152145380056892008-04-22T14:24:00.000+01:002008-04-22T14:24:00.000+01:00A puff for his book - or a distraction from 10p an...A puff for his book - or a distraction from 10p and £50 bn? If he was advised by spin doctors, it may not have been for his personal benefit. Remember he's a loyal servant of the Party. So I suspect this has much more to do with timing than truth.<BR/><BR/>But if does turn out to be incontrovertibly true - sorry.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410040031410954403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-81315628580007253912008-04-22T13:25:00.000+01:002008-04-22T13:25:00.000+01:0010:51 - That is exactly what I meant a couple of p...10:51 - That is exactly what I meant a couple of posts above when I referred to a new phanton army of middle age male "probable bulimia sufferers". This opens up a whole new arena for exploitation of disability benefits. <BR/><BR/>And all in the service of selling a dull book about an unachieving, ill-educated, loutish, aggressive, greedy fat man who threw a punch at his employer - a member of the electorate.<BR/><BR/>Although he had job titles in the Blair regime, we know they were grace and favour jobs to keep him from revealing the location of the bodies. He is an aggressive, dull-witted, mean-spirited, ugly thug. <BR/><BR/>I look forward to his biography - as though anyone <I>cares</I> about his life - sinking like a block of concrete.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-68887297250165704062008-04-22T10:51:00.000+01:002008-04-22T10:51:00.000+01:00Does one need to supply proof of this new variety ...Does one need to supply proof of this new variety of illness? I might be described as a bit chunky myself. That's because I'm too poor to go to a gym so calories accumulate. I was just thinking that perhaps I might increase my income by claiming bulimia sickness benefit. Then I could go to a gym and eat out more so it would be good for my health and self-esteem. Would that work?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-10212136942172455482008-04-22T10:49:00.000+01:002008-04-22T10:49:00.000+01:00Chrome Diplomat said... "I'm not saying Prescott i...<B>Chrome Diplomat said...</B> <BR/><BR/>"I'm not saying Prescott is comparable in terms of leadership to Churchill"<BR/><BR/>Churchill did suffer from depression. In his memoirs he referred to it (iirc) as 'the black dog'.<BR/><BR/>Churchill related it as an incidental truth about himself that people noted in passing while remaining absorbed by his fascinating writings. He did not use it as a gimmick for getting press attention in order to flog a boring book and humanise his rightly appalling public image. If Precott is actually being so truthful about this how come so many believe so little of so many other things he has said?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-41150550454217181312008-04-22T07:05:00.000+01:002008-04-22T07:05:00.000+01:00Verity:If Charles Clarke should be called "Chuck",...Verity:<BR/><BR/>If Charles Clarke should be called "Chuck", should John Prescott be known as "Chucker" or "Chuckie"?<BR/><BR/>Thinking about the latter, there was a horror film with a ventriloquist's dummy, called "Chuckie" that looked a bit like John Prescott...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-53461123352582193312008-04-21T17:21:00.000+01:002008-04-21T17:21:00.000+01:00Purely in the cause of advancing scientific knowle...Purely in the cause of advancing scientific knowledge, can anyone cite any examples, ante Prescott, of a male developing bulimia in his fifties?<BR/><BR/>This would appear to be a young persons' - primarily female - affliction and closely related to self-image. One look at Prescott is enough to inform us that physical self-image has never been one of his obsessions.<BR/><BR/>I googled 'bulimia middle-aged men' and was unsurprised to see that a whole new industry is springing up around John Prescott. These are "middle-aged men who are afraid to admit to bulimia". In fact, they are so "afraid", no one has admitted to it, so now we have a phanton army of "probable" middle aged male bulimia sufferers.<BR/>A whole new niche market!<BR/><BR/>Watch the attention-seekers come tumbling out of the closet with this suddenly discovered new route to victimhood. Maybe, if Ken loses, he can 'fess up. I can think of a couple of male luvvies who might appreciate a headline or two.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-81267100094880622122008-04-21T17:20:00.000+01:002008-04-21T17:20:00.000+01:00go on Verity - just give us a few, but not too man...go on Verity - just give us a few, but not too many, of those American catchphrases - those catchphrases make me lefty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-53816675948554812292008-04-21T16:23:00.000+01:002008-04-21T16:23:00.000+01:004:12 - But they are slavish copiers of American u...<B>4:12</B> - But they are slavish copiers of American usage in Britain. I was at one point going to compile a list of Americanisms employed on this blog by people who are filled with disdain for America and Americans. Every second sentence contains catchphrases from some American sitcom, but noting them all down was too arduous.<BR/><BR/>I was a fan of Donald Rumsfeld. He is Ivy League, civilised, witty and worldly. Not one of those adjectives applies to Mad Dez or, indeed, any of the other louts in the current government.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-88648433586689390912008-04-21T16:12:00.000+01:002008-04-21T16:12:00.000+01:00Verity said ..."Only in socialist Britain would th...Verity said ...<BR/><BR/>"Only in socialist Britain would they put a mentally ill person in charge of armed forces engaged on battlefields."<BR/><BR/>Rumsfeld?<BR/><BR/>"why is Charles Clarke still Charles, btw, and not Chuck?<BR/><BR/>Because this is Britain not the U.S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-32659781165346677412008-04-21T14:43:00.000+01:002008-04-21T14:43:00.000+01:00I have no doubt that Hurler Prescott, famous for g...I have no doubt that Hurler Prescott, famous for greediness, often stuffed himself and glug-glugged large volumes of liquor to the point of racing to the bathroom to throw up his dinner. As others have said, this is gluttony, not bulimia. <BR/><BR/>Judging by the picture of Des Browne in yesterday's paper, the man is raving. Only in socialist Britain would they put a mentally ill person in charge of armed forces engaged on battlefields. If I'm not wrong, it was Des Browne who OKayed it for that fat girl and her fellow incompetents to sell articles on the story of their capture and temporary detention by the Iranians. The Iranians clearly had the nous to read Des Browne correctly.<BR/><BR/>While we're at it, could we get rid of Des and Ed and Bill and Tony (why is Charles Clarke still Charles, btw, and not Chuck?) and call them by their formal names? I don't want to have nicknames of people I wouldn't shake hands with forced on me. <BR/><BR/>God, I hate the left!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-15728079523476191012008-04-21T11:40:00.000+01:002008-04-21T11:40:00.000+01:00I posted last night but either I screwed up or Iai...I posted last night but either I screwed up or Iain didn't like what I said.<BR/><BR/>Prescott, sad, newsworthy and exploitable in an MSM sort of way. I am gutted that Iain and others haven't picked up on his linked story about Des Browne.<BR/><BR/>Members of Her Majesty's Armed Forces are dying whilst the political inner circle blithely discusses the mental health of the Defence Secretary!!!!<BR/><BR/>Do me, a member of the Armed Forces, a favour and get your priorities right please.<BR/><BR/>If Des Browne is mentally ill, no slight, it happens, then it is the highest priority of government to replace him RIGHT NOW.<BR/><BR/>Iain, your and others unwillingness to pursue this story instead of the easy MSM style hits on McBroon, demean your position. Prove yourself more than just another Westminster Village acolyte.GarethShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13207806640711750915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-71752203330942283972008-04-21T04:07:00.000+01:002008-04-21T04:07:00.000+01:00Iain.I just can't believe that you have been taken...Iain.<BR/><BR/>I just can't believe that you have been taken in by Prescott's ridiculous claim of suffering from bulimia.<BR/><BR/>The man is a notorious glutton and there is absolutly no evidence to support his claim, apart from his own words.<BR/><BR/>No wonder you were rejected as a prospective Parliamentary cacndidate if you believe such obvious attempts to gain public sympathy and to advetrtise his book.<BR/><BR/>Get real.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-76974872393263366992008-04-21T00:51:00.000+01:002008-04-21T00:51:00.000+01:00cfr - But didn't all politicians put themselves fo...cfr - But didn't <I>all</I> politicians put themselves forward? Why did you "expect more" of "Dezzie and Prez"? A little thinking gap there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-73742473079178934122008-04-21T00:48:00.000+01:002008-04-21T00:48:00.000+01:00"We should acknowledge that sometimes we put so mu..."We should acknowledge that sometimes we put so much pressure on top politicians that they break."<BR/><BR/><BR/>My former brother in law, a CID detective, told me that being a crook is one of the most stressful occupations on earth. That's why so many of them are relieved to cough and get it all off of their chests once they're caught and bang to rights.<BR/><BR/>Politcians suffer stress for the same reason. If far too many of them weren't such lying crooks they wouldn't be under so much pressure. Much of their stress stems from trying to cover up for their own rotten lies and deceit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-13792374727366656042008-04-21T00:31:00.000+01:002008-04-21T00:31:00.000+01:00cfr - What a deeply boring comment. "But in the c...cfr - What a deeply boring comment. "But in the case of Prezzie and Dez we expect more." We do? More than what?<BR/><BR/>"They both put themselves up for up for public service and both failed." Uh-huh. What this has to do with Prescott's claim that he suffers from a fashionable psychosomatic disease (which he would have jeered at had a Tory claimed it) is a bit cloudy.<BR/><BR/>Did you read the comments previous to your own urgent contribution? Or perhaps you just skipped through them in your lynx-eyed determination to mention "Prezzie" and "Dez"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-19314978068891387782008-04-21T00:21:00.000+01:002008-04-21T00:21:00.000+01:00And Two Jags just happens to release this statemen...And Two Jags just happens to release this statement to a Sunday newspaper. This wouldn't be the same Sunday rag that's bought serialisation rights for his book, would it?<BR/><BR/>Sorry, I don't believe Prescott's fairy tale. I've no doubt that he stuffed himself until he was sick - but that's known as gluttony, Iain, not bulimia.<BR/><BR/>This is just yet another act of self publicity - and no doubt a smokescreen from the £4000 Prescott scrounged off the taxpayer to throw down his neck.<BR/><BR/>What next? Will he claim that he only dodged paying council tax on his free accomodation for years because he's dyslexic and couldn't add up.<BR/><BR/>No doubt he'll find a way to blame that on Thatcher and the 11 Plus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-1684231714239773662008-04-20T23:35:00.000+01:002008-04-20T23:35:00.000+01:00"We should acknowledge that sometimes we put so mu..."We should acknowledge that sometimes we put so much pressure on top politicians that they break."<BR/><BR/>True. But in the case of Prezzie and Dez we expect more. They both put themselves up for up for public service and both failed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-33176594532247293812008-04-20T23:33:00.000+01:002008-04-20T23:33:00.000+01:00OK, If it is so tough being a politician or a Cabi...OK, If it is so tough being a politician or a Cabinet Minister,where are all the top bankers, lawyers, FTSE 100 company directors who have cracked in the same way as Des Browne or John Prescott?<BR/><BR/>The simple answer is that there aren't many (any?), because those professions filter out the weaklings before they get to the top.<BR/><BR/>If Prescott had an inferiority complex, that was no doubt due to his inferiority.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13775753218753337766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-70919219086625873502008-04-20T22:48:00.000+01:002008-04-20T22:48:00.000+01:00John Prescott makes shock announcement from Downin...John Prescott makes shock announcement from Downing Street:<BR/><BR/>http://www.westbournemouthukip.com/toons.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-13530951207546501192008-04-20T21:41:00.000+01:002008-04-20T21:41:00.000+01:00I am on the side of "its all a ploy to sell my boo...I am on the side of "its all a ploy to sell my book and ignore the shagging my secretary episode - not to mention all the other treating women like shit stories"<BR/><BR/>You are indeed to nice Iain.<BR/><BR/>Prescott overeat and threw up a few times ... THATS not buima. Bulima is when you eat a bit and throw up ALL the time.<BR/><BR/>Quite frankly there are so many labour politicians that make me want to vomit every mealtime is becoming a nightmare.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-44460311985068960602008-04-20T21:33:00.000+01:002008-04-20T21:33:00.000+01:00WW- I cannot believe your gullibility. Anonymous 7...WW- I cannot believe your gullibility. <BR/><BR/><B>Anonymous 7:47</B> Thank you. You are not gullible.<BR/><BR/>Scary Biscuit writes "Verity, disbelieving Prescott isn't being hard hearted. Believing him is being soft headed. Every ounce of sympathy expended on him is some not expended on somebody else."<BR/>This is possibly the most incomprehensible comment I have ever read on a blog. I have never before been accused of erring on the side of compassion.<BR/><BR/>" If you really want to be caring, do something nice for somebody you know." Thanks for the tip. I'll weave them a peace basket.<BR/><BR/>Judith, I'd be depressedby this public "confession" if I believed it to be true because, like you, I don't want politicians and stars forcing me to share their inner lives. <BR/><BR/>But odd that, in the decade of his high profile, during his late sixties, he managed to keep this affliction out of the public eye. I don't remember people attending banquets that he attended comment, for example, on John Prescott constantly dashing off to the loo after consuming a huge plateful of nosh? <BR/><BR/>He's trying to make himself interesting and sympathetic to sell his book which will, frankly, follow his dinner down the toilet. It won't sell. He was never in power. He had a toy job. And for sure there more is money from other sources in not revealing where the bodies are buried.<BR/><BR/>The book will be remaindered within weeks of publication. As Cherie Blair's book was. And Alastair Campbell's went down the tubes, too. Labour voters are not, in the main, readers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-16258731569588308032008-04-20T21:31:00.000+01:002008-04-20T21:31:00.000+01:00'If you don't like the heat stay out of the kitche...'If you don't like the heat stay out of the kitchen'.<BR/><BR/>I have no sympathy for him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-38772547537164835872008-04-20T21:27:00.000+01:002008-04-20T21:27:00.000+01:00Prescott reminds me of those fatties whom you neve...Prescott reminds me of those fatties whom you never see eating, but who undoubtedly gorge their wobbling fat faces full of garbage the remainder of the time. "It's my glands," they blubber through their flabby chops. No it's not, fatties - if it were your "glands", then statistically, a good few lard-arses ought to have wobbled weepingly out of Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Belsen in 1945. I mean, if one's engorged body is <I>not</I> the consequence of excess calorie intake, then the <I>KZ-Essplan</I> ought to have had no effect on a substantial number of inmates, <I>nicht wahr</I>? <BR/><BR/>But it didn't. Because it isn't medical - it's just filthy, swinish, gluttonous greed. Who was it said that free food tastes better than paid-for? If it wasn't Fatty Prescott, it should have been, the greedy oafish socialist swordsman. <BR/><BR/>Frankly, the only interest I have in Fatso's weight problems is in relation to whether, when the evil fat shit is finally publicly crucified, we need to put a few extra nails through his flabby extremities to hold his bloated mass securely in place on his cross for the week or so it will take him to suffocate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-81530408794106550982008-04-20T20:59:00.000+01:002008-04-20T20:59:00.000+01:00Could someone enlighten me:Just why was it necessa...Could someone enlighten me:<BR/><BR/>Just why was it necessary for Mr Prescott to make this revelation? In what way has it assisted our understanding of politics, or the history of the Labour Movement, or the history of the last 11 years?<BR/><BR/>Whatever the truth of the bulimia claim, discussing such matters in public is pathetic and demeaning. I am seriously depressed by the utter lack of discretion and dignity displayed by people in the public eye.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-3586741069292580572008-04-20T20:55:00.000+01:002008-04-20T20:55:00.000+01:00Chrome Diplomat,"Please explain to me exactly what...Chrome Diplomat,<BR/><BR/><I>"Please explain to me exactly what you evidence is for suggesting Prescott is lying about the condition other than you seem to think that fat people can't have Bulimia, which, it would seem is totally uniformed".</I><BR/><BR/>1. He is claiming this to help sell his book. This might be a co-incidence; it might be a cynical attempt to manipulate public opinion. His career would suggest the latter.<BR/><BR/>2. Whilst being fat and bulimic are not mutually exclusive, this is a form that differs so markedly from the type that Diana had (where low self esteme causes the sufferer to hate food to the extent that it makes them physically sick) that perhaps it should have a different name. Glutony perhaps?<BR/><BR/>3. There is a modern trend to label vice as illnesses, in an attempt to portray the sinner as the victim. Socialists do this for criminals, who cannot in their opinion be both poor and bad. Teachers do this for stupid kids, calling them dyslexic, and lazy disruptive ones claim to have ADD. This neatly exonerates everyone for their behaviour and blames it all on their genes or other factors beyond their control. This is not to say that there is not some truth in some of these conditions but that the vast majority of 'suffers' are simply jumping on the victimhood bandwagon. The doctors I know rate the genuine claimants as a tiny percentage of the true ones. Which group is Prescott likely to be in?<BR/><BR/>Verity, disbelieving Prescott isn't being hard hearted. Believing him is being soft headed. Every ounce of sympathy expended on him is some not expended on somebody else. If you really want to be caring, do something nice for somebody you know. Beware of recreational empathising, which is a self-indulgence and just as much of a sin as being hard hearted.Scary Biscuitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03039289019338752778noreply@blogger.com