Gore blimey Mr Prescott

You gotta love it, Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister dumping on Bush:

JOHN Prescott sparked fresh embarrassment by saying he wished George W Bush had not been elected president.

The diplomatic gaffe came at a private Downing Street meeting with former US vice-president Al Gore.

It reminds me of my senior school days, the kid who has been caught out at whatever it is that invokes the march to the headmaster’s (principal’s) office.

The kid knows he’s going to get ‘six of the best’, that is six allmighty whacks across the finger tips with a length of supple cane.

Once you reach that door, the rest is a certainty, so when the kid is asked by the head’ “do you have anything to say for yourself?” More often than not he faced the inquisitor and said, simly, “and f**k your mother too!”

John Prescott is on his way out. It‘s not a matter of if, but when. He’s made far too many gaffs for a man in his position.

Singly they don’t amount to much of anything; he got caught poking his secretary in his ministerial office, he played croquet, for god’s sake, at his ‘grace and favour’, country home.

The list goes on, but is too ridiculously petty to bother with, suffice to say the list is long enough to give his enemies a lever and a place to stand.

That being so, I picture the unrepentant Prescott thinking, well if I have to go, I might as well stick it to someone on the way.

Who better than his boss’ best buddy, George W? Oddly though, he was saying it to a god buddy of his own, Al Gore!

The Deputy Prime Minister and Gore worked closely together during international negotiations over the Kyoto climate change treaty.

Prescott's aides insisted that he was only expressing sorrow that American environmental policy would have been different if Gore had been elected.

I’d rather stick to my vision of events, Prescott sticking it to George because he could.