Pauline in tears as the Goat says sorry
JOHN Prescott saying sorry? It seems unlikely but there he was in Manchester, all pius and humble, apologising to the comrades for messing around with one of his diary secretaries and for the uproar over the visit to a Colorado ranch owned by the man who wants to turn the Dome into the UK's first super casino.
Ever so servile, not the tub thumping John of old. The former steward on the liners has at last fallen from grace. The writing is on the walls - when Tony leaves the stage, our working class hero will follow suit.
Always in his master's shadow, he'll hang up his top hat and cane forever.
Still, it's been a good 10 years nearly at the top. Being Deputy Prime Minister, living the high life in taxpayer funded apartments and with a chauffeur driven limo on tap sure beats serving gins and tonics to the landed gentry aboard a luxury liner who had nothing better to do than cruise the high seas.
Labour's conference ended today with a fine rendition ot the Red Flag and loud cheers for a conference video of our John punching the lights out of a rural protester. Any other person would have been sacked for such crass working class behaviour, but Blair knew he had to keep in with the left and so shrugged his shoulders saying "That's John being John."
Pauline was in tears during the speech, as well she might at her husband's infidelity, ramming home like an old goat. THE Goat was of course Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George who, you will recall, flogged hereditary peerages in return for cash donations to the party.
But we'd better not go down that road until Inspector Knacker of the Yard has had a little talk with our Tony. Shouldn't be long now.