As ye sow, so shall ye reap
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As ye sow, so shall ye reap
One of the best pieces of political writing I have seen in many a year and more importantly, it's very, very funny.
From this morning's Telegraph:
Touching vignettes from the dying days of the regime
Maybe it's time Prescott got a new nickname; after careful consideration, I vote for "2 Shags Prescott" from now on 
From this morning's Telegraph:
Touching vignettes from the dying days of the regime
A United States army helicopter hovered over Downing Street, waiting to whisk the Prime Minister, his wife, her hairdresser and other key staff off the roof. Meanwhile, at a makeshift dressing station far beneath Whitehall, exhausted medics struggled to save the lives of a succession of terribly injured ministers.
The bravery of these casualties brought tears even to the hardened spin doctors who were operating on them. Here was Charles Clarke, bleeding from a series of horrific self-inflicted wounds, yet promising all and sundry that he would keep his job until he had learned how to do it. And here was John Prescott, his reputation shot to pieces, still volunteering for a dangerous mission to raise morale in the typing pool.
The atmosphere darkened momentarily when a team of over-worked nurses cracked under the strain and tried to murder Patricia Hewitt. But the Health Secretary simply beamed uncomprehendingly at the nurses until they fell back in despair.
These are among the vignettes that historians are likely to offer their readers as they try to describe the decline and fall of the Blairite regime. But we hope that among the high drama, room will be found to describe how ordinary life continued almost until the bitter end.
As we sauntered down Whitehall yesterday morning in the peaceful spring sunshine, there was no sign that the advancing Brownite forces were already in control of almost every Government building except for No 10 itself, or of the columns of Blairite refugees whose people carriers were clogging the roads to the first-class departure lounge at Heathrow.
A knot of tourists was peering through the gates of Downing Street and we asked two ladies from Derbyshire if they could tell us what was going on.
One of the ladies said: "How much was it for her to have her hair done every day? Two hundred and seventy-five pounds? They're totally out of reach of ordinary people."
The other lady said: "The last time I was here, in the 1970s, I don't remember these gates."
The gates stop the general public from walking down Downing Street and perhaps symbolise how out of reach our rulers have become. But at this moment the gates swung open and an
imposing maroon Range Rover emerged, in the back of which we glimpsed the martial figure of Geoff Hoon, the former defence secretary who is now Leader of the Commons.
We hastened to the Chamber to watch Mr Hoon go into action. Not since SS men fought desperately in the ruins of the Reichstag in the spring of 1945 has such valour been seen in defence of a parliament building.
Mr Hoon took no prisoners. He denied point-blank that there had been job cuts in the National Health Service and said it would be pointless to have a debate about ministerial responsibility.
Douglas Hogg (C, Sleaford and North Hykeham) listed several recent cases of "culpable ministerial negligence" and declared: "There is no accountability unless there is resignation."
But Mr Hoon indicated that the Blairite regime will have no truck with such a defeatist doctrine.
It is perhaps worth mentioning that the two ladies from Derbyshire thought Mr Clarke, Mr Prescott and Miss Hewitt should all resign now, and predicted that Mr Blair will be gone by Christmas.
The bravery of these casualties brought tears even to the hardened spin doctors who were operating on them. Here was Charles Clarke, bleeding from a series of horrific self-inflicted wounds, yet promising all and sundry that he would keep his job until he had learned how to do it. And here was John Prescott, his reputation shot to pieces, still volunteering for a dangerous mission to raise morale in the typing pool.
The atmosphere darkened momentarily when a team of over-worked nurses cracked under the strain and tried to murder Patricia Hewitt. But the Health Secretary simply beamed uncomprehendingly at the nurses until they fell back in despair.
These are among the vignettes that historians are likely to offer their readers as they try to describe the decline and fall of the Blairite regime. But we hope that among the high drama, room will be found to describe how ordinary life continued almost until the bitter end.
As we sauntered down Whitehall yesterday morning in the peaceful spring sunshine, there was no sign that the advancing Brownite forces were already in control of almost every Government building except for No 10 itself, or of the columns of Blairite refugees whose people carriers were clogging the roads to the first-class departure lounge at Heathrow.
A knot of tourists was peering through the gates of Downing Street and we asked two ladies from Derbyshire if they could tell us what was going on.
One of the ladies said: "How much was it for her to have her hair done every day? Two hundred and seventy-five pounds? They're totally out of reach of ordinary people."
The other lady said: "The last time I was here, in the 1970s, I don't remember these gates."
The gates stop the general public from walking down Downing Street and perhaps symbolise how out of reach our rulers have become. But at this moment the gates swung open and an
imposing maroon Range Rover emerged, in the back of which we glimpsed the martial figure of Geoff Hoon, the former defence secretary who is now Leader of the Commons.
We hastened to the Chamber to watch Mr Hoon go into action. Not since SS men fought desperately in the ruins of the Reichstag in the spring of 1945 has such valour been seen in defence of a parliament building.
Mr Hoon took no prisoners. He denied point-blank that there had been job cuts in the National Health Service and said it would be pointless to have a debate about ministerial responsibility.
Douglas Hogg (C, Sleaford and North Hykeham) listed several recent cases of "culpable ministerial negligence" and declared: "There is no accountability unless there is resignation."
But Mr Hoon indicated that the Blairite regime will have no truck with such a defeatist doctrine.
It is perhaps worth mentioning that the two ladies from Derbyshire thought Mr Clarke, Mr Prescott and Miss Hewitt should all resign now, and predicted that Mr Blair will be gone by Christmas.
Yes, I've been using '2 Shags' as Basher Prescott's new nickname ever since his affaire became public knowledge!
Edited to add - but Melchett01 was the first to use it on PPRuNe!
Edited to add - but Melchett01 was the first to use it on PPRuNe!
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Ironic that Prescott isn't being canned (in all earnest hope) because of his shambling incompetence, illiteracy and inarticulate rambling, but for shagging, probably quite badly, a rather dowdy civil servant ?
It's all quite unedifying, but in his case totally deserved since his hypocrisy in attacking Tory "sleaze" at every contrived opportunity has finally bitten him in the arse. Great fun watching the fat bastard squirm, and all his lying friends with him as the old court martial adage goes,
It's all quite unedifying, but in his case totally deserved since his hypocrisy in attacking Tory "sleaze" at every contrived opportunity has finally bitten him in the arse. Great fun watching the fat bastard squirm, and all his lying friends with him as the old court martial adage goes,
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Originally Posted by BEagle
Yes, I've been using '2 Shags' as Basher Prescott's new nickname ever since his affaire became public knowledge!
Edited to add - but Melchett01 was the first to use it on PPRuNe!
Edited to add - but Melchett01 was the first to use it on PPRuNe!
But The Scum beat you both to it yesterday, as did Carol Thatcher on Question Time last night!
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I quite like John Prescott. He has made it all the way from being a Ship's steward to the number 2 slot in the Labour party. He has a reputation for speaking his mind and would rather punch journo's than talk to them....and he gets to bed a woman who is clearly out of his league and some 25 yrs his junior....
.... Good on him.
.... Good on him.
Two Shags is perhaps the least competent of a bunch who call themselves the Cabinet. I hope he goes, and soon, and all the rest with him.
Does anyone else find Patricia Hewitt insufferably condescending?
Does anyone else find Patricia Hewitt insufferably condescending?
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Yes to the Patricia Hewitt question, and as for Prescott, he is arrogance and ignorance personified, when he has little to be so arrogant about, but as for the ignorance............a double first.
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I quite like John Prescott. He has made it all the way from being a Ship's steward to the number 2 slot in the Labour party
As for the rest of them: just what planet is that Hewitt woman living on? If you really want the NHS to work, sack the management. I was talking to our Stn MO yesterday; apparently, the NHS is the WORLD'S 3rd biggest employer behind the Chinese PLA and the Indian state railways. Germany and France with their comaprable population sizes have successful and effective health services that are a fraction of the size and cost of ours. If you want t otake the liberal-socialist line about how great the NHS is, in its current form, prepare for it to fail. You could pour every penny the Govt has into the NHS and it still wouldn't be enough; the big constants since time began are that people are born, get sick and die; the death rate remains steady at 100%. Playing politics with the NHS will not improve this point and neither will pumping billions into an over inflated bureaucracy. An average hospital has 2 managers for every bed; sack them all and re-instate hospital boards based around the occassional manager and the majority of places filled by senior medics/nurses and you might be at the start of the right line.
And that Clarke bloke - surely it was common sense that foreign criminals should be deported at the end of their sentance, with the whole process needing to start well before their release. To do as they have done thus far would be like starting the planning process half way through a sortie, bonging purple airspace and saying sorry gov, let me do it till I get it right, doesn't matter we 've just crashed into the Queen's ac, there are plenty of other Royals to take her place.
This lot have had it coming to them for a long time. Unfortunately it is only now that the population at large and the media are starting to see what the current regime is really like. The Telegraph comment was entirely justified and long overdue.
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I don't see the usual cohort of PPRuNe Noo Labur trendies rushing to Bliar and his Arrogant Ba$tard Cabinet (ABC) members' defence this time.
They had it coming. Noo Labur Sleeze!
They had it coming. Noo Labur Sleeze!
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I don't see the usual cohort of PPRuNe Noo Labur trendies rushing to Bliar and his Arrogant Ba$tard Cabinet (ABC) members' defence this time.
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It's interesting that prescott is trying to dismantle local democracy using every trick in the book. He has imposed a ludicrous standards board system onto everything from parish councils upwards. For example, he has banned a local councillor in Cambridgeshire from having anything to do with the Northstowe new town, because he lives in the adjacent village. He should be allowed to represent the views of his constituents but can't, on the grounds that 'he has a prejudicial interest'.
Councillors up and down the country are being censured by prescott's standards boards for a variety of sins loosley cobbled together under 'conduct unbecoming' and 'bringing the council into disrepute', etc.
But it's all right for him to screw his secretary?
Boy, talk about double standards. At least Profumo had the decency to resign and descend into obscurity to devote his life to charitable works.
The sooner this lot are out, the better.
Councillors up and down the country are being censured by prescott's standards boards for a variety of sins loosley cobbled together under 'conduct unbecoming' and 'bringing the council into disrepute', etc.
But it's all right for him to screw his secretary?
Boy, talk about double standards. At least Profumo had the decency to resign and descend into obscurity to devote his life to charitable works.
The sooner this lot are out, the better.
