What Does John Prescott Think Of Gordon Brown?
Apparently it required a luxury cruise for John Prescott's candid feelings about Tony Blair, Grumpy Gordon Brown and Red Ed Miliband to be revealed.
Some 700 passengers on the flagship of Cunard the Queen Mary 2 had the benefit of the fomer deputy prime minister's views on the last three Labour leaders.
It is believed that the couple were offered the £40,000 cruise free in return for Lord Prescott to make two talks in the ships theatre.
I have no doubt that he will appreciate the income tax implications and declare his earnings on his UK income tax return.
In his first talk before christmas he gave what fellow passengers called a stumbling performance at one stage dropping his notes and repeating himself sounds very much like a normal politician to me!
The next presentation on the 2nd January was apparently a much better presentation,considerably so as the peer answered questions from the audience.
In various comments which are not that surprising but may not be that well received by the Labour party as he called Ed Miliband "Red Ed"! I suppose he could have called him by some other nick name such as bog brush or gromit which are often used to describe him. He attacked Ed Miliband for disowning Labour's history when in Government, of course Ed Miliband was a member of that very Government .
Mr Brown the ex Prime Minister was called a "miserable bugger" and a "cuckoo in the nest".
He gave a much more pleasant assessment of Tony Blair.
When asked about the abysmal result in the election Lord Prescott did refer to the three televised broadcasts and made the view that he hoped that politics was not going to become the next x factor. With Vince Cable appearing on Strictly Come Dancing over Christmas who knows what might happen.
Clearly Nick Clegg did very well on the television debates as not that many voters had heard about him followed by David Cameron who gave a credible performance but not as good as many expected from his performance as leader of the opposition at Prime Minister question times but poor Gordon Brown was sadly at the bottom.
Many comments spring to ones mind when thinking about Lord Prescott.
He always campaigned the ruling elite yet he accepted a peerage of which he so despied and apparently loathed not so long ago.
John Prescott was always supporting the workers in his Union but he used a grace and favour home courtesy of the Union.
He was always for the ordinary working man yet he paid his own council tax with public money and was caught out.
He always claimed to be a man of the people but he drove around in a luxury class Jaguar car in fact not just one but two Jaguars as he was known by the nick name "two Jags prescott". That is about as far from the working class as one could possibly get.
It was always said that the real reason why Tony Blair was happy to have John Prescott as his deputy was simply that he knew his position as Prime Minister was guaranteed from mutiny!
Tony Blair went to a rather top school north of the border in Scotland yet he waged a class war against the Conservatives in his early days. Many people believed that John Major was to the left of Blair!
Blair preached socialism but now has a great portfolio of property and receives millions in income for business consultancy, talks and speeches. He has links with an oil company that has earned an immense amount out of the invasion of Iraq.
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