Sunday, July 16, 2006
How low can Prescott go?
The Sunday Times in its Atticus column reports here that: "A former Labour aide and journalist is suing him (Prescott) in a writ that claims he kept a dossier on the sexual activities of senior colleagues, including Tony Blair and Gordon Brown."
Clearly I'm in no position to comment on the accuracy of the claim, and indeed if the case goes ahead, no doubt it will be adjudicated judicially.
If it is true, it beggars belief, here we have John Prescott who has risen through the ranks and obtained high office. He is no less than the Deputy Prime Minister, yet it appears that all this time he's been keeping tabs on his colleagues, allies and presumably friends for behaviour which is morally equivalent to his own (and may in some cases perhaps be better than his own). Obviously the words of the Bible: "let him who is without sin cast the first stone" have not penerated his reason.
I could understand it if he found this behaviour morally reprehensible and was keeping such a dossier for the purposes of correcting error and to encourage those concerned onto the straight and narrow path. In the light of his own behaviour, hardly a moral beacon to society, it would appear that this is not the purpose of this dossier (if it exists).
If this dossier does exist, then it seems to me that its sole purpose is blackmail; made all the more cruel by Prescott's own failings.
To me it would seem that Prescott has no sense of duty or service, not even to the vile socialist causes he says he supports. Anyone with loyalty or a sense of duty would never keep such a dossier, unless it was to encourage those involved to mend their ways or to prevent damage to the higher cause. Prescott it seems was happy to offer the dossier to a journalist. Prescott, by staying in office has allowed both his leader and his party to be damaged, his words of: "I'll go when Blair goes" start to look very suspiscious in the light of the claim of this dossier. The reluctance to Tony Blair to sack him even despite his liabilities, helps make the claim of the dossier more credible.
I hope the claim is false, not because I like Prescott or Labour, but I would hope (perhaps naively) that no one stooping to these type of tactics would ever achive high office.
Hat Tip to Drinking From Home where I picked up on this.
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Clearly I'm in no position to comment on the accuracy of the claim, and indeed if the case goes ahead, no doubt it will be adjudicated judicially.
If it is true, it beggars belief, here we have John Prescott who has risen through the ranks and obtained high office. He is no less than the Deputy Prime Minister, yet it appears that all this time he's been keeping tabs on his colleagues, allies and presumably friends for behaviour which is morally equivalent to his own (and may in some cases perhaps be better than his own). Obviously the words of the Bible: "let him who is without sin cast the first stone" have not penerated his reason.
I could understand it if he found this behaviour morally reprehensible and was keeping such a dossier for the purposes of correcting error and to encourage those concerned onto the straight and narrow path. In the light of his own behaviour, hardly a moral beacon to society, it would appear that this is not the purpose of this dossier (if it exists).
If this dossier does exist, then it seems to me that its sole purpose is blackmail; made all the more cruel by Prescott's own failings.
To me it would seem that Prescott has no sense of duty or service, not even to the vile socialist causes he says he supports. Anyone with loyalty or a sense of duty would never keep such a dossier, unless it was to encourage those involved to mend their ways or to prevent damage to the higher cause. Prescott it seems was happy to offer the dossier to a journalist. Prescott, by staying in office has allowed both his leader and his party to be damaged, his words of: "I'll go when Blair goes" start to look very suspiscious in the light of the claim of this dossier. The reluctance to Tony Blair to sack him even despite his liabilities, helps make the claim of the dossier more credible.
I hope the claim is false, not because I like Prescott or Labour, but I would hope (perhaps naively) that no one stooping to these type of tactics would ever achive high office.
Hat Tip to Drinking From Home where I picked up on this.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
