Prescott and the pantomime horse - a new Whitehall farce - Sunday Times - Times Online

Prescott and the pantomime horse - a new Whitehall farce - Sunday Times - Times Online. Ah ha. A reality check. GF is evidently not alone in his views on the DPM and his department. The Times quotes from a eaked Mori opinion poll of government officials and stakeholders describing Prescott's purview as:

lacking leadership and comparable to a “pantomime horse”.

The article goes on to report that

Prescott suffered the humiliation of having to listen to the demolition of his record at a meeting about a year ago attended by his departmental ministers and senior officials.Witnesses said the room fell into an embarrassed silence.

Oh to have been a fly on the wall during that meeting!

Labour insiders believe Blair misjudged Prescott’s abilities and gave him too much responsibility.

NO, SURELY NOT! Splutter! What annoys the Gorse Fox is that GF pays this buffoon's wages, yet if he actually had direct control over him he would limit his responsibilities to making the tea, and being a bouncer. Even this may prove to much of a stretch for him.

Oh, and by the way, if you hadn't picked up this bit, let the Gorse Fox highlight:

shadow secretary for the department, said Prescott was in danger of losing touch with voters by increasing council tax but not paying it himself on his government apartment.

That's right, he has three domiciles and does not pay council tax out of his own pocket on any of them... which means that we pay it for him.

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