He was crap. Tried to pick a fight with Ian Hislop. Reckoned he could have him. What a dick. Who in the name of God made this oaf a Baron?
I just enjoyed that on the iPlayer. Prescott was indeed a humourless twat and Victoria Corren was indeed very hot
I thought he was a waiter on cruise ship but wasn't very good at it so became a politician. The Labour Party: promoting wildly unsuitable people to high office at public expense since 1924.
yip, you would think the more recent party's would of learnt from other peoples mistakes.:Angelic::smile:
A former ship's steward and trade union activist, by the 1980s he was presented as the political link to the working class in a Labour Party increasingly led by modernising, middle-class professionals. In his youth, Prescott managed to overcome failing his 11-plus entrance examination for grammar school, going on to graduate from Ruskin College at Oxford and the University of Hull. He became a steward and waiter in the Merchant Navy, thus avoiding National Service, working for Cunard, and was a popular left-wing union activist. Prescott's time in the Merchant Marine included a cruise from England to New Zealand in 1957.[11][12] Among the passengers was Sir Anthony Eden, recuperating after his resignation over the Suez Crisis. Prescott reportedly described Eden as a "real gentleman". Apart from serving Eden, who stayed in his cabin much of the time, Prescott also won several boxing contests, at which Eden presented the prizes.[12] He married Pauline "Tilly" Tilston at Upton Church in Chester on 11 November 1961.[13] He then went to the independent Ruskin College in Oxford, which specialises in courses for union officials, where he gained a diploma in economics and politics in 1965. In 1968, he obtained a BSc in economics and economic history at the University of Hull
JP-much underrated member of society. Significant social work, outstanding customer service in an earlier humble career , made the brave leap into politics, demanding stretch to his intellect, but seamless. Massively influential behinds the scenes over many years in UK and high level politics, and indeed around the world. I can reveal he is shortly to be the worthy recipient of a Nobel Prize. Or something like that, anyway. Breakfast pizza anyone? Our driver will deliver -he drives a Jag you know.
He was indeed a waiter on a cruise ship and Nicholas Soames, a posh upper class twat, used to goad him in the House of Commons by shouting "make mine a gin and tonic". Which is mildly amusing but is probably unfair to waiters on cruise ships.
You forgot h You forgot hypocrite. Typical champagne socialist - like 99% of the Labour Party. Campaigned for the Lords to be abolished then accepted a peerage. Makes me vomit.
The best waiters need to be charming, discrete, solicitous and diplomatic. No wonder Prescott had to pack it in. I should imagine on a ship they ought to be slim as well. What the hell was he thinking of? He should have been a bouncer at a bingo hall.
He may have actually been slimmer in those days - I suspect all the free lunches paid for by unions / Labour Party members / tax-payers may have expanded his waistline somewhat over the years...
I must say though, the twat went up in my estimation - albeit only fractionally - when he properly twatted the twat who twatted him with an egg!
