Sky News has been obsessed by the Prescott saga today and have been wheeling out every conceivable journalist and pundit to twist the knife a little further - Michael Brown, Kevin Maguire, Martin Bright, all united in believing that the old bruiser is about to be despatched to that old cruise liner in the sky. We'll see. Even Colin Brown, his friend and biographer, thinks he may well throw in the towel.
I get my turn to throw in my two pennyworth on Sky News Live at 5, followed by a pre-record for Tom Bradby on the ITV News at 6.30 and then live on More4 at 8pm. Well, a boy's got to pay the bills!
UPDATE: Man in a Shed reviews the appearance on More4 News HERE. He thinks it was better than Newsnight and I was more relaxed!
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What's the going rate then for a media whore these days?
May I offer my knife sharpening service? The sooner we get rid of this corrupt buffoon the better
It's not just Sky; everyone seems obsessed by everything.
Why are we interested in this rubbish? You obviously are as it promotes your political agenda, but the vast majority of us just want a government who runs the country. You, and your party, are more concerned with kicking the opposition than the ball. In a football match, that'd get you a red card.
What are the issues that we are concerned with? Global warming, poverty, inequality, fair trade, arms dealing. What are you concerned with? None of these.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Raise your sights, set a positive agenda. Suggest what you / we can do to make the world a better place. Work with the government, not against it. We live in a time when we are on the verge of a catastrophic change in global climate and all you can do is witter about someones alleged affair; a non-story in the great scheme of things.
Fie on you, for shame.....
Prescott's assertion that he knew nothing about policy within the Department that related to his stay with Anschutz is odd. Is he saying that civil servants did not brief him before the meeting?
You... you're getting paid?
I'm shocked! I thought you were just putting the boot in, you know, for the love of the game...
Please do make the point that it is the conventional media that has been suppressing this, rather than blogs hyping it up. The lobby has known about the affairs for a very long time.
I am surprised you weren't stronger on that point in your discussions with Paxman last night. Paxman (like everyone else) clearly knew about Kennedy's drink problem (it was obvious from his questioning at that pre-election interview with him) yet neither he nor any other political journalist at the time gave this issue any prominence. You would have thought it might have been of interest to voters to know that the leader of a party they were asked to vote for had an addiction to alcohol.
This seems at root to be all about the Dome - what to do with it, this useless white elephant, started by the tories and mindlessly continued with by Blair as an ego trip. Prescott has to go shopping with homophobic US billionaires because the one hope left for this monstrous waste of money - a super casino - is due to parliamentary fuss not guaranteed, it could go elsewhere in the UK. So this is what the New Labour Project has come to; desperate scrambling for casino investment from degenerate rich men. It could be the plot of a Scorcese movie, were it not for the totally unphotogenic nature of JP. But really this isn't about Prescott, loathsome though he is; he is surely just a symptom of the dereliction of our government system, swanning around on ranch holidays and bidding for gambling licenses, whilst our troops are sent on pointless underfunded death-missions to Afghanistan. A plague on all their houses - would the Tories be any better??
To Stewart Ellinson
can you not see the connection - what hope for high minded politicians willing to tackle the real big issues when we are stuck with liars, cheats, fornicators and self-interested charlatans? The sooner they are exposed and dispatched the sooner we can stand any chance of dealing with poverty, terrorism, climate warming etc etc.
Who is Stewart Ellinson?
Amazon tells us that he is
"Name: Stewart Ellinson
Public Name: Stewart Ellinson
About me: Head of Social Sciences at 'a large and successful technology college in the north of England'. Obviously spending too much time with my computer."
And he doesn't have a political agenda of his own of course . . . .
Just wondering whether Prezza has invested in some plasticine and a few pins yet!
I don't see what the issue is here. Like a man who offers to marry your ugly daughter surely Philip Anschutz deserves our eternal gratidute for taking the Dome off our hands?
And I'd rather not think about Prescott hunched over anyone thank you!
Sod his sex life - we've all got one. Where's the damage on the casino.
Waiting for your shot...or are you wielding a popgun yourself Iain?
Playing the ball not the man? This is what New Labour has continually done - from Steve Moxon to Iain Dale re this story.
And if you want a government that just runs the country, you should be pulling with the rest of us to kick out this group of corrupt incompetents. Civil society shouldn't be working with this government!!! Wake up.
Where were you?
Or do you use a psudonym?
Enjoy it while you can Iain. If they really like you they will go to you quite a bit. Just remember to mention your buds in the blogging community eh Iain?
For those in the present regime who don't like being on the receiving end of a media feeding frenzy, may I remind you of two incidents:
Jo Moore's e-mail in response to the deaths of 3000 people.
The MOD's cynical hanging-out-to-dry of David Kelly during Alistair Campbell's ego-war with Andrew Gilligan of the BBC.
You sowed the wind by abandoning any principles and selling your souls to the likes of Mandelson, Campbell, Moore et al just to make yourselves electable. Don't complain now you are reaping the whirlwind. In office your party has sunk to lows which many of us never knew existed, you have suborned and politicised the Civil Service, and have brought the professions of politician and journalist into such disrepute that most of us no longer know if there is a single honest person among you. As Cromwell said to the Long Parliament, "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"
Hey Iain. You're a publisher. What about a set of Labour Casino Playing cards featuring John (doorman) Prescott, Tessa (Place your bets) Jowell and Tony (croupier) Blair.
Would certainly liven up our poker evenings.
Hey Iain. You're a publisher. What about a set of Labour Casino Playing cards featuring John (doorman) Prescott, Tessa (Place your bets) Jowell and Tony (croupier) Blair.
Would certainly liven up our poker evenings.
You sound really fired up, brilliant.
Ta for the link Iain. I'm off to pour some cold water on the various overheated hit counters I play with on my site - the dalo effect !.
By the way Stewart Ellinson the hypocrisy and incompetence of the government, as personified in Prescott, matters a lot. NuLabour have been great with promises, announcements, re-announcements, launches - conversations with the people - announcing modernisation - declaring reform, targets, paying consultants millions etc. They are just useless at the business of government.
They are unable to even achieve the objectives they set out for themselves ( however high minded or cynical )[ every time I wish that I gone further - scares on my back etc sound familiar ? ].
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