John Prescott elevated to The House of Lords
 

Been out of circulation for a while and am still in catch up mode. Heard on the news that John Prescott is among the bunch of no-marks destined for The House of Lords. Be interesting to see how long it will be before he blots his copybook!

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Hypocrite.

He always insisted he'd never accept one, and that he didn't agree with the honours system.

Read the other week the fragrant Pauline was putting pressure on him, so she could become Lady Pauline of the Lavatory Pelmet.

John Prescott, hypocrite, and pussy whipped victim.

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Stinks, dunnit?

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Floella Benjamin ennobled, and heading to the House of Lords?

Honours list: John Prescott, Sir Ian Blair and Floella Benjamin to become peers - Telegraph

Point me to the round window.

I'm going to jump out of it.

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Yes.

Another politican selling his principles for mere trinkets.

Sadly it must be catching.

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Look on the bright side, he can always snot Ian Paisley.:D

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Prescott used to be a boxer, as such, they are trained not to street fight because of the damage they could cause to another person, Prescott has hit two people I think, which makes me wonder what he would stoop to in politics to get his own way.

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Who the hell is Floella Benjamin? And why is she a colouful character?

If there really is an argument for abolishing it, this must be it.

PS....I notice Malcolm Pritchard's name is absent from the list. That must be a great disapointment for him.

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Floella K. Y. Benjamin OBE DL (born in Pointe-à-Pierre, Trinidad, 23 September 1949) is a British actress, author, television presenter, businesswoman and Chancellor of the University of Exeter. She is known as presenter of children's programmes such as Play School and Play Away. She claims to be the first woman to appear "fully pregnant" on British television
Wikipedia

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I'm aghast.

I didn't think there was anyone of British origin left who didn't recognise the mighty Flo.

I was always a fan of the arched window myself.

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Good grief, it must have taken some mighty natural force to elevate that lump of mass.

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How about Lord Cashman of Accrington, has a nice ring to it:D

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Ya caught it of Mandy:rolleyes:

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You'd better prepare yourself for when Thatcher snuffs it, and practice your sweeping genuflection, when you're bowing before Lord Mark Thatcher.

:worthy:


;)

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unless hes back in Africa trying to get another government overthrown.:D

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Yes, if he'd have been able to read a map, and get there, to be more fully involved with the attempted coup, he'd be in prison now.

:D

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Now there's a thought! Dont forget Mandelson, though. I'd punch him myself if given the opportunity

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YouTube - Prescott Egged Bad!

as many thought at the time the guy got what he deserved, i disagree with his new position but dont disagree withhim gobbing the egg chucker :)

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Oh come on Stumped it would be a waste of a good punch:rolleyes:

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I've never or will ever bow to anyone, not even his mother;):tongueout

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I should have realised that's improbable, and I suppose physically impossible...whilst you're kissing arse.

;)

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I'll leave that to those better qualified :rolleyes:

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Unlike some, the only backside I'd ever be tempted to kiss, would be my own.

;)

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Always knew you were a bit special:rolleyes::rolleyes:

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In the past, this man said he would never accept a peerage..........that was, of course, when there wasn't one on offer. This man was always Old Labour, or Socialist if you prefer. Ermine will fit him like Cinderellas glass slipper.
Seems like another politician has sold his principles, his credibilty and his integrity(not that he had much of than anyway).
He has said that he has done it to make up for what he put his wife through when he was 'bothering' with Tracy whatsherface....stinks to me.

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Nontheless I'd enjoy it.

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Bout time we 'serfs' showed a bit of spirit.

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Mindless violence?

Why?

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I have always thought she was a "Life Peer" and that meant that her title was not passed on to her offspring?

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Her's won't, but the hereditary Baronetcy title passed to Thatcher Jnr, on his father's death, and then will be passed on to his American sprog on his death, etc.

Incidentally, two of the vilest men I ever had the misfortune to meet, Denis and Mark Thatcher.

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I hear they spoke well of you too Garinda:D

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I always enjoyed a good scrap, and there's a lot to be said for getting in the first punch.

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Takes all sorts, I suppose.

Though that's the sort of attitude that's probably responsible for the rivers of blood that pour out of the doors of A & E, at hospitals throughout the country, every weekend.

I've never met her, but I always thought I'd never get on with Winnie Mandela, and therefore wouldn't particularly like her.

Though personally I'd feel ashamed, if my self-worth was so woefully lacking, if I ever said I would 'enjoy punching' her, as you have, of someone you apparently dislike.

The trouble with unprovoked violence is that there's always someone bigger and stronger than yourself, somewhere along the line.

I hope in years to come you aren't sat in a nursing home, and someone there doesn't like the cut of your jib, and decides to punch the living daylights out of you.

Takes all sorts.

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Happily I treat everyone the same, regardles of who they are, or think they are.

I've posted before, much to my suprise, Thatcher herself was charm personified, when I had dinner with her. She took a genuine interest in others, and conversation was as it should be, a two way operation.

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In my experience, it's the bit part players, with low self-esteem, who are out to prove their worth, by treating others appallingly.

James Hewitt was another obnoxious prat.

Then there's those who hang on to the coat tails of those in power locally.

:rolleyes:

:D

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Working with some one is a hell of a site different than hanging on to coat tails, given the fact that I've done nothing really since 2001, due to my ever increasing heath problems, I find your comments wide of the mark, but its what I've come to expect from you, making statements you know sod all about:mad::mad:

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No names were mentioned.

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Given the fact that you were replying to my post, and that you have this thing about my involvement with everything PB does, can't think anyone on here would think you meant anyone different

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No one would have known of your support for Peter Britcliffe if you hadn't spent years writing to the press, making it perfectly clear to everyone, and also the act of throwing your toys out of the pram in protest, when he didn't make the candidate list in the recent General Election, and sharing that information with everyone on here, makes it all perfectly clear.

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'Less than two years ago, Mr Prescott, 71, insisted: 'I don't want to be a member of the House of Lords. I will not accept it.'

'The former Deputy Prime Minister has also criticised 'flunkery and titles' and once described hereditary peers - who he will now sit alongside - as an 'offence against democracy'.

'John Prescott has revealed the reason behind his extraordinary decision to accept a peerage: He wants to save the planet.;
Prezza's extraordinary peerage U-turn: I'll only accept Lords place to help the environment, says former Deputy PM | Mail Online


Oh that's alright then.


Two Jags is only doing it to save the planet.


He must think we're green, swallowing that one.

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Prescott has gone well down in my estimation not just by accepting this, but by a pathetic excuse as well.:(

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at the moment there seems to be no end of pathetic excuses for doing things which show the politician/Celebrity/ex Royal in bad light.
Prezza....he did it for Pauline( I wonder if he thought about her so carefully when he was bonking some young blonde thing from his office)
Sarah Ferguson........she had been drinking(er....she didn't sound drunk on the video......I have never been so drunk that my critical faculties about what is right or wrong, deserted me.......aah, but as Jaysay observed, I have led a sheltered life).
David Laws.....well he did it to protect his privacy......how does that work then?
You wouldn't automatically think that the landlord of your accommodation was your lover......or would you? And he only 'fessed' up because he was about to be sussed by a daily newspaper.
Personally, I don't care about this man and his bedroom habits......but I do care that he thought he could steal/defraud/embezzle money from the tax payer......Especially as he really didn't need the money, having had a lucrative career that allowed him to retire as a millionaire at the age of 28.
He might be academically clever, but he was pretty dumb to think that he would not get caught out.

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I didn't protest about Britcliffe not making the candidates list my protest was about have a candidates list foisted on use

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The last remnants of socialism dead and buried me thinks :rolleyes:

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Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: Lord Two Jags: I’m still a class warrior
Yet reght, hard faced barsteward:mad:

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...because they didn't trust you to select a candidate who hadn't lost twice before.

:D

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As you say, if he was that bright, and really wanted to protect his privacy, he wouldn't have abused the system to the tune of forty grand.

No one would know of his living arrangements.

Let's not forget that it's only thanks to the mole, who passed on the expenses to the Daily Telegraph, that any of these scandals ever came to light.

The majority of M.P.'s fought tooth and nail to keep them secret...for 'security reasons'.

:rolleyes:

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I think there's a debate to be had around the the word privacy. Was it their privacy that some M.P's were trying to protect, or was it that they were attempting to keep things secret. There's a difference.

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Yes Bernard, you are right...there is a difference.
It is secrecy when they are defrauding us, the tax payers.
I am not against people having privacy when it comes to their bedroom arrangements.......I couldn't care less what their preferences are.
David Laws knew he had done wrong.......but he casts a smoke screen over the events by saying that he wanted to keep his private life 'private'.
This does nothing for his integrity....the integrity that other politicians say is faultless.
I would ask how these politicians can judge when they have been guilty of the same offence....embezzling funds from the tax payer.
It is OK for us, the hoi polloi, to have to tighten our belts, but they consider themselves above us....and as such, subject to different rules.
They still don't get how hacked off the electorate is with their double dealing......What will it take to get the message through to them?

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Yes, they wanted their privacy, so we didn't know we were footing the bill for their moats to be cleaned, their duck islands to be custom built, and for their spouses to watch blue movies.

:rolleyes:

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It also doesn't say much for the integrity his colleagues who were very, very sorry that this 'good' guy forced to leave, such as Clegg, Cameron, Cable, Osborne et al, and whom they hoped to see back in the centre of things very soon.

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Cameron and Clegg are hoping that he won't knee them in the groin by quitting politics altogether and force a by-election.

The fact that these people see David Laws as a 'good' guy is worrying....as I observed, they appear to have learned nothing about the electorates disapproval of their double dealing.

Which bit of 'this is stealing' don't they understand?

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Here we go again. Perhaps I should point out that even though I was a successful amateur boxer in my youth and early twenties, my 'punch' statement was merely intended as a jocose figure of speech, though judging by your reaction, you tend to have taken my tongue in cheek comments far too literally. Ease up old man. No need for you to get agitated again!

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Any of you lot listen to Radio 4 this afternoon at 4pm? They had audio diary extracts from 5 newbie MP's over the last three weeks. One thing in common and they all complained about - they had nowt to do! Anyone like to comment?

PS...you can probably pick it up on BBCI player.

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As I stated, it takes all sorts.

We'll just have to put you down as another one of those who posts something, but 'doesn't really mean it'.

That's two losses and a knockout you've now suffered, but jolly well tried.

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Reckon I've survived many a hard knock in my time, and no doubt there'll be a few more before I meet my maker! Isn't that what life's all about - not taking things too seriously, meeting challenges head on and learning from the mistakes we make along the way?

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Well i can go with that.

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:bleedht:

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Well we'll see what happens after the inquiry, but you can hardly think that Mrs:confused: Mrs:confused: see I've forgotten her name already, did outstandingly well can you:rolleyes:

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A bit lick a certain Lord did on three or four occasions in the 13 years prior;)

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Stumped you should know better there is only one person on here is allowed to make tongue in cheek remarks:rolleyes:

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Since that post seems to exhibit tongue in cheek remarks, we now know who that person is.

;)

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No Names No Pack Drill;)

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Perhaps those odd people who post something, who on being questioned, 'didn't really mean it', might care to use this handy emoticon.

http://www.lisleuth.com/images/T-cheek.gif

Don't say I never give anything to those less fortunate.

;)

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Less fortunate:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

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I thought Karen Buckley did quite well considering the circumstances. To get nearly 14.000 votes considering the lack of support she got from the local Tories, was not a bad effort.

I honestly don't believe any other Tory candidate, local or not, would have got any nearer to Graham.

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I have been told - 'he has a strange sense of humour'
A unique sense of humour is evident when no one else laughs.

Is that humour?:confused:

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...or get a room.

:rolleyes:

:D

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For room read paded cell :rolleyes:;):D

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Ah Bernard speaks:eek::eek::eek: the answer to your question is we'll never know will we, but at least he's off your back :rolleyes:

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No he aint, Slimecliffe is still council leader.:D

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Goodonya. There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

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Ah well. We're never too old to learn.

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His first try to get into parliament was to stand for Labour in Southport

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Lord Prezza's presenting HIGNFY tonight, should be entertaining.

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That made my mind up its ITV for me then:D

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Who Did Graham Jones:confused:

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John Prescott

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well as the threads about him its rather obvious wadey, though difficult fer jaysay to comprehend.:D

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Thanks wadey, think Southport would have thought they were getting a beached whale:D

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:tongueout:tongueout:tongueout:tongueoutUP YOURS:tongueout:tongueout:tongueout:D:D:D

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Southport certainly wouldn't have wanted him :eek: far to many nouveau rich, footballers & well to do types in that part of the World to allow an Oik like him in ! It's full of well heeled Blue rinses is Southport. :D

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1966 General Election Results for Southport,Prescott increased the Labour vote
Conservative Ian Percival 22,324 51.0
Labour John Prescott 12,798 29.2
Liberal C J Coleman 8,630 19.7
Majority 9,526 21.8
Turnout 43,752 72.7

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Must have been blinded by his Charisma;)

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10 bob says you watched him on HIGNFY last night.:rolleyes:

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At least he has had a real job

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I'm thinking the modern day equivalent of his, (real job) of being a merchant navy steward is being a male flight attendant :D ... yep John Prescott a trolly dolly . Unless of course your refering to his days as a union thug who helped destroy the British merchant fleet and led to most ships being flagged overseas and the loss of British maritime jobs ;)

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Thats ten bob you owe me yerself, if I want punishent I'll walk round with nails in my slippers :rolleyes:

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Shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuush SJ your talking about the FORMER darling of the labour left, who has now sold every principal he ever had, must have been the fine trappings of the Croquet Lawns that turned his head;)

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Here you are jaysay.

http://http://farm4.static.flickr.co...8161d2a9d6.jpg

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Well whatever it was I only got a little box with a red cross in it:D

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It's your ten bob.


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3224/...8161d2a9d6.jpg

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HaHa ain't seen one of them for a long time, in fact I think you could have got about 4 pints with one in those days:rolleyes:

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You should have slipped him one of these.

He'd never have noticed.

:D

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I'll have you know sir they were legal tender in Ossy for many years, used to get them in my change at the local bakers, seems their son was a dab hand with John Bull printing kits:D

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Seems that Prescott isn't the only left-wing fire brand who'd rather preach 'Do as I say, not as I do.'

'Arthur Scargill has claimed more than £250,000 in expenses for a luxury flat in London — despite stepping down as head of the miners’ union eight years ago.'
Arthur Scargill claims £250,000 from union for flat - Times Online

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He lives in one of the most expensive blocks in London not Barnsley and I bet Skinner doesn't retire to Bolsover

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A true socialist ;)

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And I bet he likes Champagne too:rolleyes:

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No, just a hypocrite, and they aren't confined to any one party.

;)