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Is there a concerted media effort to destroy Prescott?
BillieTheBot
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It certainly seems that way to me. The bile in the last few days has simply been extraordinary. I honestly can't think of anyone else who has been treated in such way. Not Blair, not Ken Livingstone, not even Galloway.
The Scum certainly has it in for him, and has done so for many, many years. They were demanding (or rather, Rupert Murdoch was) that he should go well before any of this broke. Apparently he's 'Old Labour' and we can't have that in the right wing Labour government of Tony Blair.
The Mail and others have joyfully joined in as well. And they will probably get him out if such savagery continues.
Regardless of whether he represents good value for money, am I the only one who fails to get so worked out about Prescott having 1 afternoon off to play crocket as the tabloids have?
The Scum certainly has it in for him, and has done so for many, many years. They were demanding (or rather, Rupert Murdoch was) that he should go well before any of this broke. Apparently he's 'Old Labour' and we can't have that in the right wing Labour government of Tony Blair.
The Mail and others have joyfully joined in as well. And they will probably get him out if such savagery continues.
Regardless of whether he represents good value for money, am I the only one who fails to get so worked out about Prescott having 1 afternoon off to play crocket as the tabloids have?
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Poor chap. Sure, he screwed up. Lets get over it.
It's hardly surprising that the right wing press are taking every opportunity to discredit him - he is all that is left in government of Old Labour, apparently a uniting force in the parliamentary party. With him forced out in a scandal, it would do immense harm to the government, and Gordon Brown would be left with a divided party. It's all familiar territory if you cast your mind back to the mid 90s and the Major years.
However, to borrow Renzo's word, I do think Prescott is extremely average. He apparently works 16 hour days, 7 days a week. Doing what exactly? He kept his enormous salary and perks in the reshuffle but seems to have little to do save "chair meetings". Perhaps his public persona is different from his professional one, but I wouldn't trust him to run a government department.
Press plot or not, he's providing plenty of ammunition himself.
Me neither, to be honest.
I've felt a niggling kind of pity for Prescott for a while now. Of course, he's brought some of it upon himself but a lot of the criticism that he does face seems to be incredibly vitriolic and over things I can imagine anyone else getting away with, so to speak. He's such a laughing stock now that I get the feeling they use him as a total scapegoat to deflect attention away from other issues. Proverbial lamb to the slaughter, so to speak.
Not that I actually like him or anything /caveat
Blair is keeping him so there is no leadership contest as the deputy and the PM are closely related. Now Blair doesn't want this.
Plus Prescott is a hypocrite lying cheating scum bag. Plus he is hardly left wing nor represents the left of Labour. He is quite right wing but pretends to represent Unions and the left.
Labour would be better off with such a scum bag.
IU support The Sun... Mail etc campaign to oust the swine bag!
Don't believe everything you read in the tabloids.
Also lets not make to much of Prescott being 'Old' Labour. He may eat peas with his knife and speak with a Northern accent, but he's fully signed up to the 'project' and New Labour. He's one of Blair's strongest allies - one of the reasons why Blair is loath to let him go.
There are far worse people than Prescott in Labour that don't even get 10% of the stick he gets.
Mandelson and Blunkett have done far more serious things. But I guess they're not seen as old Labour (even though Prescott isn't really old Labour either) and more to the point, they are not fat.
Because a lot of it comes down to that. Prescott is fat and therefore fun to be made of. Always has been.
Is it even worth talking about? Just because he is a Labour MP doesnt make a difference after all.
As for Prescott been made fun of. He deserves it. He did it to opposition ministers so its Karma in action.
That was hypocrisy, and deserving of a resignation.
Otherwise, it really is nobody's business whether politicians cheat on their partners or who they sleep with.
Jabba is all about champagne socialism at its worst, and any campaign to get that fat lump of shit out of office and into a coffin is a campaign I will fully and vocally support.
It earns more in a year than I earn in a decade, and what do we get from it? We get to see it pissing about playing croquet when it should be at work, we get it abusing its free house to fuck the secretary in every which way possible, we get to see it driving 100 yards to a conference- even Jabba should have been able to walk that- and in order to justify its grotesque salary, we get to see it visiting some drug addicts.
Absolute bargain. Time for Jabba to go.
He is exactly the same as the Torries.
And the fact that he did so during office hours in a flat that the tax payer pays for, thats none of our business either?
But so long as we are prepared to forgive an MP who is seen popping in the local pub for a quick half for half an hour we should forgive Prescott. What they were doing doing that time is not relevant- the only relevant issue is the waste of company time.
Don't you think that somewhere there should be a line drawn between personal and political life though? I don't know much about Prescott but if I were to become a political figure then I could easily be labelled with a whole bunch of things based on past and current actions. I guess i just think it's a little harsh to judge a man's ability to do his job based on his personal life. I know the comparison isn't exact, but I think Paddy Ashdown was pretty hard done by as well. I really didn't see the issue with him liking a couple of bottles of wine a night; hell I frequently drink that after a hard day at work. IMO he still talked a lot more sense than most other people in parliament.
Nah, but if he was wearing a blue rosette you'd be pissing yourself with excitement at nailing a "hypocrite".
Why? Wouldn't you?
So when the Tory Ministers were resigning, do you remember who was one of the most vocal of their opponents?
I'll give you a clue, the thread is about him.
He should go, partly because he has lost trust, partly because he did it during working hours, partly because he is an embarassment to the Govt. In fact I think that the only thing stopping Blair from sacking him, is the thought that Tony would be next on the hit list and the media focus is elsewhere at the moment...
If the latter if the case, and since Prescott hasn't to my knowledge embarked in any 'back to basics' morality botherings, he is entitled to have criticised those tories, and he is not a hypocrite for having cheated himself.
Let me make it clear that the man has countless faults and that I'm not in the business of defending him for the sake of it. But when it comes to his extra marital affair, there is nothing 'hypocritical' about it whatsoever- unless he actually campaigned for family values and morality like the tories did.