There is an old adage that we get the Governments we deserve. The older I get I realise the less I know, (another old adage, I know), but I don't think we deserved a Government that contained somebody like Prescott.
His syntax apparently gets mangled when he gets a little over excited, so yesterday before Chilcot Ad Hoc Committee was reduced out of his mouth to 'Haddock Committee'
Prescott's appearance showed the man had little wit to understand the events that unfolded before him, his only concern was to keep the tribalism of the Labour together (unthinking and unquestioning ) and not to earn a place in Cabinet but on the Blair Sofa where the real decisions the last administration were made.
Blair of course was fully aware the the real real decisions were made at a ranch in Crawford, Texas. The nearest Prescott got to be on that particular sofa was when the Bush supporting Philip Anshutz bought him some cowboy boots that in the over excite that he promptly forgot all about the ministerial code and making a declaration to HMRC.
Prescott in acquiescing to the Iraq invasion, was just going along with the group think and blind loyalty to 'Labour'. What the Party says is good, everybody else is a class enemy (until you become a Lord, that is). I don't think that he for one minute questioned the dodgy dossier as 'Tittle Tattle' that came with the benefit of hindsight.
Did he not notice other Ministers resigning over this issue, most note worthy being Robin Cook, or that the Attorney General was lent on to say the war was illegal, or the Chiefs of the Defence staff who said we were ill prepared for war. Prescott I suspect just lay back and thought of Party interest and how far he had got up the greasy pole.
I would like to say that Prescott was the product of another era, but Balls performance on the 'Five Days That Changed Britain' showed that Labour arrogance and thuggish behaviour is still alive and well.
The repeated use of the word arrogance as applied to potential Lib Dem coalition partners, showed that the Labour Party did not accept the outcome of the Election, and immediately started cosying up to the Unions to disrupt and thwart the will of the people.
The most striking appearance on that programme was Mandelson, who obviously only loves winners not losers. He contrasted Cameron's outreach to Clegg favourably with that of Brown. Brown, Balls etc had no plan to enter coalition whatsoever. They just intended to carry on regardless in the Dictatorship of the Proletariat mode for another five years.
Prescott's appearance before Chilcot showed that there was a moral and intellectual void at the top of the Labour tree, that was filled by the 'born again muscular Christianity' of Blair/Bush.
We as a nation have paid the price, unfortunately we appear to have acquired a Prime Minister who equally shoots from the lip on Turkey,Pakistan and being the junior partner. We just do not deserve this from the political class.
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