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The John Prescott shipping forecast (drum ‘n’ bass remix)
Before reading the shipping forecast for Comic Relief at 5:20am on Saturday, former merchant seaman John Prescott remarked:
“I used to sit in my bunk listening to it on the wireless. It has such a metronomic quality, like the rhythm of the sea. It feels like a poem.”
Though Two Jags alludes to the musical qualities of the broadcast, Scrapbook isn’t sure that drum ‘n’ bass is what he had in mind:
This is infinitely preferable to Sailing By.
Hat-tip: Politics Home
Two-Jags does "Rocky" routine for car insurance ads
Typically elder statesmen take up roles as consultants, company directors, or chairmen of corporate boards. However former Deputy Prime Minister John, now Baron, Prescott has chosen a somewhat different way of keeping food on the table – joining the likes of veteran rocker Iggy Pop in selling car insurance.
In an advertisement for Moneysupermarket.com Prescott pokes fun at himself with a Rocky Balboa inspired boxing routine in a garage which conspicuously has two cars parked in it!
Perhaps his successor Nick Clegg can flog lie detectors when he retires!
John Prescott compares Peter Mandelson to a meerkat in spoof memoir advert
Having likened Peter Mandelson as a crab thirteen years ago, the newly web-savvy David John Prescott has turned to the internets to poke fun at his memoirs:
As of 8 July at least the two rivals have one thing in Commons, ahem sorry, common. Both being peers of the realm, perhaps they can have a friendly joke about this on those cosy red benches?
A reprise of This Week’s take on Prezza’s introduction seems appropriate:
John Prescott on student finance: "What you talkin' 'bout Willetts?"
Prezza is not impressed by universities minister David Willetts’ suggestion that students are a “burden on the taxpayer” and should live at home, attending an FE college to achieve a “prestigious degree”:
But who knew Two Jags was a fan of Diff’rent Strokes?
Turning the clock back: Acceptable in the 80s?
Labour’s choice for the #peoplesposter competition is coming in for a bit of a bashing but that doesn’t change the underlying message: turning the political clock back to free-wheeling Thatcherism would be a total disaster. There are other ways to get this across and John Prescott pointed to Scrapbook’s viewer-submitted video using Calvin Harris’ Acceptable in the 80s.
Here it is in its full glory:
Apologies for the irregular posts in the past few days.
There are a number of irons in the fire for next week!
Prezza taunts Boy George on Facebook
Earlier this week the Tories got all social meeja on us with a Facebook Q&A session entitled “Everything you’ve always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask George Osborne” “George Osborne answers your questions on the economy”:
The idea was that the great unwashed enter questions using the Conservatives’ Facebook page which would then be put to Boy George along with queries from a live audience - all streamed live over the internets (video here). The honourable member for Hull East’s curiosity evidently got the better of him:
Strangely enough this matter was never put to Osborne.
Maybe they ran out of time or something?
Romanian president punches child at election rally (John Prescott eat your heart out)
Has the Romanian president been taking election campaign tips from our beloved John “two jabs” Prescott? Traian Basecu, who faces a run-off vote after leading his nearest rival by just 3% in an initial poll, is seen to apparently punch a child in the face at an election rally. Something was evidently lost in translation between “mulleted Welsh farm worker” and “young boy”:
In the words of one Romanian commentator (thank you Google Translate):
The other day he said something about an ‘emotional bomb’. Here it is!
Hat-tip: @wikileaks